Academic Calendar 2017/2018 - Existentialism I

PHIL 3476  Existentialism I

Prerequisites:

PHIL 1116 and PHIL 1117

Antirequisites:

PHIL 3475

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course will introduce existentialist philosophy as a reaction to enlightenment reason and nineteenth century idealism. The meaning of individual existence, nihilism, creation, freedom and intersubjectivity will be explored through philosophical and literary texts that may include the work of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir.