PHIL 155 - Continental Philosophy

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University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. In this course we read various texts in the Enlightment tradition and more recent ones critical of modern distortions of this tradition. We shall begin briefly with Kant and Marx, two exemplars of this tradition, and then we shall study in some detail the views of the Frankfurt School (especially the writing of Horkheimer and Adorno), Foucault, and Derrida. Background readings from Nietzsche and Saussure shall also be assigned to place the material from Foucault and Derrida in its proper context.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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