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: 15.0 points

Prerequisites

30 points in Philosophy or EUROPEAN 100 and 15 points in Philosophy

Restrictions

PHIL 341