This unit explores the work of a number of influential continental philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those philosophers belonging to the existential/phenomenological tradition. Some of the thinkers discussed may include Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer and Derrida. Much continental philosophy can be read as an attempt to find a way between traditional philosophical dichotomies such as subject/object, internal/external, realism/anti-realism. As a result, each of these philosophers has important things to say about truth, meaning, the self, knowledge and our relation to others. Given the profound influence of these... -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Nicolas Damnjanovic
Prerequisites: any Level 2 Philosophy unit
