PHIL 273 Continental Philosophy, 1800-1900
PHIL273
200 Level Course
Fall
3 Units
In-person
3
- Level 2 or above
None.
one-way Exclusions
- Lectures
- Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
- Wilhelm Dilthey, Introduction to the Human Sciences
Instructor: Paul Fairfield
This course provides an analysis of key figures and texts in nineteenth-century continental European philosophy. We shall study key works by Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Wilhelm Dilthey. Major topics will include Christianity and subjectivity, the critique of metaphysics and conventional morality, the foundations of the human sciences, existentialism and hermeneutics, among others.
Learning Outcomes
Assessments
Assessments
One essay and two in-class debates.