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Existentialism & Phenomenology

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
TBA
McCormack M01-0207 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
TBA
Location
McCormack M01-0207
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

An inquiry into the broad philosophical movement of existentialism, through a reading of major existentialist thinkers including Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Kierkegaard, Jaspers and Heidegger. Topics to be discussed include authenticity and freedom, self-deception, the absurd, the critique of Cartesianism, subjectivity and objectivity, and death and the meaning of life.

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