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This course will provide a survey of the philosophical developments arising out of certain aporias of Kantian philosophy. The focus will be on the principal representatives of German Idealism (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel), as well as on certain"minor," but nonetheless significant philosophical figures. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This seminar will provide a survey of the major texts and figures of the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse etc.). We will pay particular attention to their interrogations of philosophy and politics, philosophy and psychoanalysis, and philosophy and art. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th century. Yet because of the myopia of the Anglo-American philosophic tradition, he has only recently begun to receive the attention he deserves in the English-speaking world. This seminar will make a careful study of Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time. In addition to our reflection on the intrinsic meaning and merit of this book, we shall consider some of its important roots in the tradition and some of the ways in which it prepares the way both for Heidegger's own radically transformed later thought and for the most recent trends in contemporary continental philosophy. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Michel Foucault was one of the most influential European thinkers of the 20th century. Using a selection of his writings, we shall examine some of his main contributions, seeking to understand both the philosophical and cultural influences that led Foucault to his positions, as well as the wide-spread influence he has had on subsequent philosophy and political, historical and cultural theory. 1.00 units, Seminar
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The seminar will interrogate the complex interrelationship between art and technology in 20th and 21st century philosophic thought. To what extent has technology brought to fruition the "end of art" predicted by Hegel in the 19th century, and to what extent has technology brought about a reconfiguration of art We shall examine such seminal figures in this controversy as Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, and Vatimo. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course examines the ethical implications of philosophical challenges to metaphysical epistemology. Our readings will focus on Heidegger, Levinas, and recent developments in analytic feminism. Topics we will consider are a historically situated objectivity and the phenomenological generation of ethical understanding. 1.00 units, Seminar
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We shall study carefully selected works of the genuine founder of metaphysics as a discipline, Aristotle, and his great predecessor, Plato, for whom metaphysics did not yet exist. In so doing, we shall get a clearer sense of what metaphysics is and, in addition, study a number of important metaphysical problems both in their metaphysical and pre-metaphysical formulations. These will include the problem of first principles, the nature of being and non-being, the good and its relation to being, form and the problem of causality. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This seminar will examine the relation between thought ad politics in light of several historical revolutionary constellations, such as the American, French, Russian, Chinese, and Algerian revolutions. Figures interrogated will include-but not be limited to-Jefferson, Robespierre, Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, and Fanon. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Questions to be considered will include: Is there any specific kind of knowledge about the world that love can give us Is erotic love by its very nature irrational and should it therefore be excluded from, or at least minimized within, the life of reason Do we have different ethical obligations toward the ones we love Is there an ethics of right and wrong peculiar to sexuality Does the concept of sexual perversion have any objective validity Readings from Plato, St. Augustine, the Marquis de Sade, Kierkegaard, Sarte, Alan Bloom, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Martha Nussbaum, and others. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An examination of the writings of the founders of American Pragmatism-Charles Pierce, William James, Santayana, and John Dewey. 1.00 units, Seminar
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