Assoc.Prof.Dr. Serkan Ertin
Undergrad Courses Spring 2021-2022
The courses I will be teaching this term

LOOKING AT PHILOSOPHY II
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PRESENTATION TOPICS
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HEGEL: Freedom and state; Religion and Politics
SCHOPENHAUER: World as representation; World as will
KIERKEGAARD: psychology(existential and Christian); theology and faith
MARX: freedom; alienation
NIETZSCHE: Genealogy of morality; mass culture; übermensch; herd behaviour; nihilism
UTILITARIANISM: happiness; benefit
BENTHAM: gender and sexuality; animal rights
MILL: theory of liberty; women’s rights; colonialism; slavery
PRAGMATISM: happiness; truth and benefit
JAMES: theory of self; epistemology; philosophy of religion
DEWEY: epistemology; education and teacher education;
MOORE: ethics; idealism and external world
RUSSELL: religion, society, language
LOGICAL POSITIVISM: knowledge and phenomena; science and truth
HUSSERL: knowledge and certainty; sciences and phenomenology
WITTGENSTEIN: language and meaning; language and world
HEIDEGGER: dasein; dasein and time
SARTRE: being-in-itself; being-for-itself; existentialism
STRUCTURALISM: in linguistics; in literary theory&criticism
SAUSSURE:sign-signifier-signified; language and meaning
LEVI-STRAUSS: myths; anthropology
POSTSTRUCTURALISM: binary oppositions and deconstruction; postmodernism
LACAN: Imaginary-Symbolic-Real; conscious-unconscious
DERRIDA: text and meaning; deconstruction
IRIGARAY: gender and sexuality, language
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INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM
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POSTMODERNIST NOVEL
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