PHIL 221
20th Century German Philosophy
Please note: this is archived course information from 2012 for PHIL 221.
Description
Human beings are immersed every day in a myriad of different activities: art, science, politics, love, religion, material consumption, manual labour, business and of course philosophy. What is it, then, that unifies human experience? In this course we examine a series of influential philosophical reflections on this question which stem from Germany and which span the course of the 20th Century. In particular, we survey the intellectual movements of Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory and focus on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer and Habermas.
Availability 2012
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Matheson Russell
Recommended Reading
Paul Gorner, Twentieth Century German Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
PHIL 221: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points in Philosophy or EUROPEAN 100 and 15 points in Philosophy
Restrictions
PHIL 341