Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - Existentialism II

PHIL 3477  Existentialism II

Prerequisites:

PHIL 1115

Antirequisites:

PHIL 3475

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course will consist of a sustained examination of a key theme or thinker within the existentialist tradition. Themes and thinkers may vary from year to year, but they will be drawn from such topics as: the relation between religious and atheistic variants of existentialism; the phenomenological theory of consciousness; Sartre's radical notion of freedom; Merleau-Ponty's exploration of the pre-reflective life-world.