PHIL 227 - Existentialism & Phenomenology

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University of Massachusetts-Boston

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An inquiry into the broad philosophical movement of existentialism, through a reading of major existentialist thinkers including Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Kierkegaard, Jaspers and Heidegger, and some post-modern thinkers including various literary and artistic sources. Topics to be considered may include: - Existence*The Phenomenological method* authentic vs inauthentic existence*subjective vs objective knowing* alienation and self-deception* being-towards-death* technology and mass society* Existential psychotherapy* The Holocaust and existential meaning* gender and significance* Existentialism and the beat generation* post-modernism and deconstruction* Education and existence*- Art and existence

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umb.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 287-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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