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Course Description
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Venue
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| Heidegger: Hermeneutic Phenomenology |
An introduction to Heidegger through study of a major work and one of the Marburg lectures. |
DePaul |
William McNeill |
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| Hegel |
An Introduction to Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit. |
DePaul |
Kevin Thompson |
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| Contemporary European Philosophy: Hermeneutics |
Hermeneutics is the study and theory of interpretation. With an emphasis on close readings of primary texts, this class explores the tradition of modern philosophical hermeneutics that emerges in the 19th century and continues until today. The following questions, among others, will be of particular interest: What is interpretation? What is the proper object of interpretation? What methodology, if any, should guide |
Loyola University Chicago |
Dimitris Apostolopoulos |
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| What is Hegelianism? |
The seminar will explore the fundamental issues in Hegel’s philosophy by means of attention to the texts where he most clearly states his ambitions: his early essay, “The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s Systems of Philosophy”; The Introduction to his “Phenomenology of Spirit”; The long Introduction to his “Encyclopedia Logic”; The Preface and Introduction to his “Philosophy of Right,” and the Introduction to his “Lectures on Fine Art.” |
University of Chicago |
Robert Pippin |
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| Existential Philosophy |
Study of a selection of the major writings of the more important existential philosophers, e.g., Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and de Beauvoir. |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Thomas Byrne |
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| Nineteenth Century Irrationalism: Schopenhauer/Nietzsche |
n/a |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
William Bristow |
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| Nineteenth Century Philosophy |
This course will be an examination of philosophical movements in 19th century European and American philosophy, especially as represented by seminal figures such as Fichte, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and William James. Movements covered will be: a) Post Kantian Idealism in the context of the response to Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Philosophy (Fichte, Schleiermacher, Hegel), b) Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche), and c) Pragmatism (William James). |
Purdue |
Jacqueline Mariña |
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| German Literature, Critical Thought, and New Media 1900-45 |
Built around selected key texts on the aesthetic theories of modernism (e.g., by Nietzsche, Adorno, Bürger, and Kittler), this course explores the relationship of literature and the visual arts and scrutinizes the status of literature within aesthetic production in modernity. Particular attention to works by Rilke, Kafka, Brecht, Lasker-Schüler, Benn, Musil, and Mann. |
Northwestern |
Sam Weber |