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PHIL304: Existentialism
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COURSE INTRODUCTION
Course Syllabus
Unit 1: What Is Existentialism?
1.1: Overview of Existentialism
Existentialism
What Is Existentialism?
1.2: Key Existentialist Figures
Existentialist Philosophers
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 2: Søren Kierkegaard
2.1: Kierkegaard's Philosophical Thinking
Søren Kierkegaard
More on Søren Kierkegaard
2.2: Kierkegaard's Religious Existentialism in Relation to Pascal
The Crisis of Religion
More on the Crisis of Religion
Pascal's Wager
2.3: Kierkegaard's Analysis of Faith in Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling
The Knight of Faith
2.4: Kierkegaard's Notion of Despair in The Sickness unto Death
The Sickness unto Death
Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger, and Jaspers
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 3: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.1: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Role
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's Life and Works
3.2: Dostoevsky's Notions of Freedom and Revolution
The Possessed (The Devils)
Lessons from The Brothers Karamazov
3.3: Dostoevsky's Idea of the Underground Man
The Underground Man
3.4: Dostoevsky's Perspective on Morality
Fyodor Dostoevsky on the Problem of Evil
3.5: Dostoevsky's Critique of Reason
Crime and Punishment
Why You Should Read Crime and Punishment
3.6. Dostoevsky's Notion of Truth
The Brothers Karamazov
3.7: The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 4: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.1: Nietzsche's Existential Themes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's Life and Works
4.2: Nietzsche's Critique of Metaphysics
Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy
The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
4.3: Nietzsche's Idea of Power
Self-Surpassing
The Will to Power
4.4: The Social Construction of Morality
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Nietzsche's Übermensch
On the Genealogy of Morals
4.5: The Death of God
The Gay Science
God Is Dead and We Have Killed Him
Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche
4.6: Nietzsche's Idea of Eternal Recurrence
The Gay Science
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 5: W.E.B. Du Bois
5.1: Du Bois' Existential Themes
W.E.B. Du Bois
5.2: Double Consciousness
The Souls of Black Folk
5.3: Social Construction of Race
The Conservation of Races
5.4: Freedom
More on The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois' Life and Works
James Baldwin
African-American Writers and Dostoevsky
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 6: Martin Heidegger
6.1: Heidegger, Catholicism, and Phenomenology
Martin Heidegger
More on Heidegger
6.2: Dasein and the Ontological Question
Being and Time, The Lead-Up, and Two Introductions
Martin Heidegger's Life and Works
6.3: Heidegger's Critique of Descartes
Heidegger and Descartes
6.4: Heidegger's Existential Categories for Being and Time
Heidegger on Authenticity and Inauthenticity
"Sense" in Being and Time
6.5: Heidegger's Philosophy of Existence
Heidegger's Notion of Care
6.6: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard
Anti-Modernism and Discourses of Melancholy
Unit 6 Assessment
Unit 6 Assessment
Unit 7: Jean-Paul Sartre
7.1: Sartre's Contributions to Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre's Life and Works
7.2: Consciousness as a Nothing
Bad Faith and Cultural Values
7.3: Existentialism Is a Humanism
Existentialism Is a Humanism
7.4: Atheistic Existentialism
Freedom and the Structure of Experience
7.5: The Burden of Freedom
Being and Nothingness
7.6: Sartre's Notion of Authenticity
Sartre and Authenticity
Unit 7 Assessment
Unit 7 Assessment
Unit 8: Simone de Beauvoir
8.1: Simone de Beauvoir's Role in Existentialism
Simone de Beauvoir and Existentialism
8.2: De Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics
Simone de Beauvoir
The Meaning of Life
8.3: The Ethics of Ambiguity
From Absurdity to Authenticity
8.4: De Beauvoir's Notions of Woman and the Feminine
The Second Sex
8.5: De Beauvoir's Applied Existentialism
Franz Fanon
Unit 8 Assessment
Unit 8 Assessment
Unit 9: Albert Camus
9.1: Camus' Role in Existentialism
Why Camus Is Not an Existentialist
Albert Camus
9.2: The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus
More on the Myth of Sisyphus
9.3: Camus' Departure from Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky
Absurdism
Is Life Meaningless?
9.4: The Stranger as an Existentialist Work of Fiction
The Stranger
Unit 9 Assessment
Unit 9 Assessment
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