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COURSE INTRODUCTION

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: What Is Existentialism?

1.1: Overview of Existentialism

1.2: Key Existentialist Figures

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: Søren Kierkegaard

2.1: Kierkegaard's Philosophical Thinking

2.2: Kierkegaard's Religious Existentialism in Relation to Pascal

2.3: Kierkegaard's Analysis of Faith in Fear and Trembling

2.4: Kierkegaard's Notion of Despair in The Sickness unto Death

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.1: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Role

3.2: Dostoevsky's Notions of Freedom and Revolution

3.3: Dostoevsky's Idea of the Underground Man

3.4: Dostoevsky's Perspective on Morality

3.5: Dostoevsky's Critique of Reason

3.6. Dostoevsky's Notion of Truth

3.7: The Grand Inquisitor

Unit 3 Assessment

Unit 4: Friedrich Nietzsche

4.1: Nietzsche's Existential Themes

4.2: Nietzsche's Critique of Metaphysics

4.3: Nietzsche's Idea of Power

4.4: The Social Construction of Morality

4.5: The Death of God

4.6: Nietzsche's Idea of Eternal Recurrence

Unit 4 Assessment

Unit 5: W.E.B. Du Bois

5.1: Du Bois' Existential Themes

5.2: Double Consciousness

5.3: Social Construction of Race

5.4: Freedom

Unit 5 Assessment

Unit 6: Martin Heidegger

6.1: Heidegger, Catholicism, and Phenomenology

6.2: Dasein and the Ontological Question

6.3: Heidegger's Critique of Descartes

6.4: Heidegger's Existential Categories for Being and Time

6.5: Heidegger's Philosophy of Existence

6.6: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard

Unit 6 Assessment

Unit 7: Jean-Paul Sartre

7.1: Sartre's Contributions to Existentialism

7.2: Consciousness as a Nothing

7.3: Existentialism Is a Humanism

7.4: Atheistic Existentialism

7.5: The Burden of Freedom

7.6: Sartre's Notion of Authenticity

Unit 7 Assessment

Unit 8: Simone de Beauvoir

8.1: Simone de Beauvoir's Role in Existentialism

8.2: De Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics

8.3: The Ethics of Ambiguity

8.4: De Beauvoir's Notions of Woman and the Feminine

8.5: De Beauvoir's Applied Existentialism

Unit 8 Assessment

Unit 9: Albert Camus

9.1: Camus' Role in Existentialism

9.2: The Myth of Sisyphus

9.3: Camus' Departure from Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky

9.4: The Stranger as an Existentialist Work of Fiction

Unit 9 Assessment

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