COURSE NUMBER: | PHIL 332 | |||||||||||||||||
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COURSE TITLE: | 20th Century Continental Philosophy | |||||||||||||||||
NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: | Dr. Jeff Dudiak | |||||||||||||||||
CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: | credits 3 (hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) | |||||||||||||||||
COURSE DESCRIPTION: | An examination of some recent figures and movements in continental philosophy.
Attention is given to philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty,
Gadamer, Ricouer, Adorno, Habermas, Foucault and Derrida as well as to movements such
as phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical hermeneutics, neo-Marxism, structuralism
and post-structuralism. Attempts are made to discover historical connections not only
among various philosophies but also between those philosophies and selected developments
in the arts, the sciences and European society. Prerequisites: PHIL 230 |
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REQUIRED TEXTS: | John D. Caputo, Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstuction, and the Hermeneutic Project, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. | |||||||||||||||||
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COURSE OBJECTIVES: | This course will serve as an introduction to some of the
major themes of contemporary continental thought, and an invitation to
students to engage this movement in their thinking of science,
ethics/politics, and religion. Our goals will be to: 1. develop strategies for effectively reading philosophical texts 2. learn and critically engage the basic themes communicated in our text, and related texts 3. develop a philosophical vocabulary in the area of continental philosophy 4. meaningfully reflect upon the significance for our lives and faith of the way of thought introduced in the course |
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COURSE OUTLINE: | Three classes will be spent on each of Caputo’s ten chapters, with the strategic insertion of extra materials at appropriate points. |
Required texts, assignments, and grade distributions may vary
from one offering of this course to the next. Please consult
the course instructor for up to date details.
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