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PHIL213 Recent European Philosophy

10 cp
Prerequisites
10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials and seminars.

Contemporary continental European philosophy has been an important influence in shaping our understanding of the human condition. This unit studies a selection of important European philosophers since the later nineteenth century to the present and their ideas on topics such as: essence and existence, consciousness, perception, the emotions, the mind-body problem, freedom and responsibility, and the legacy of modernity. Philosophers and philosophical approaches to be studied will include such as the following: Husserl, Heidegger, Marcel, Sartre, Levinas, Gadamer [Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics]; the Frankfurt School, Habermas [Critical Social Theory]; Saussure, Foucault and Derrida [Structuralism and Post-Modernism].

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