GPHI 6053 -

Institution:

The New School

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Description:

H eidegger's Being and Time Spring 2009. Three credits. Simon Critchley Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher in the twentieth-century Continental tradition, and Being and Time is his magnum opus. In this course students read carefully and critically the first division of the book and as much of the second division as we can cover. We also look at Heidegger's later texts. The objective of the course is for students to have a firm grasp on the key philosophical issues and concepts raised by the project that Heidegger called "fundamental ontology." These include: Heidegger'relation to Husserl and his critical adoption of phenomenological method; his critique of traditional epistemology; his account of the nature of the world and the relation of persons to world; his critique of the Cartesian understanding of world and space; his account of intersubjectivity and his critique of modernity; the key concept of "thrown projection" and an explanation of the various"existentials" (state-of-mind, understanding, and discourse); his concepts ofthrownness, falling, and inauthenticity; his account of moods and anxiety as the basic attunement of the human being; the meaning of care as the being of the human being; his critique of the realism-vs.-idealism debate; his concept of truth and his critique of the traditional concept of truth; an analysis of beingtoward- death, conscience, authenticity, and historicity.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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