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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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