At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new philosophical method emerged, devised by Edmund Husserl, which had a profound impact on the discipline and continues to thrive to this day. The aim of phenomenology is "to return to the things themselves", to describe the multiple ways in which the world is accessed by humans in different forms of experience. Phenomenology thus studies the forms of experience making possible, for example, the perception of objects in space, the consciousness of time, the relationship of the self to its own body and to other bodies. The unit begins with an examination of Husserl's initial characterisation of phenomenology. We then study the thoughts of his... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Jean-Philippe Deranty
Prerequisites: 12cp or admission to GDipArtsÂ