Existentialism Course, Summer 2017


Friday with Friends at the Museum
“Friday with Friends at the Museum” ©2017 Pahndeepah

When I do lectures in this class, I will post the audio files here. Doing this lets students be a little more free to engage in the lecture without worry that they will miss taking notes on something important. It can be revisited. Students know I am taping the lecture, so their questions and responses are taped with their permission. I also will post the key words and concepts put up on the white board if I recall to grab pictures.

Warning: Do not be expecting carefully set out lectures. You should know I don’t play that way.

WEEK ONE

Monday, 10 July 2017–Introduction

Tuesday, 11 July 2017–Up against the wall together (Sartre)

Wednesday, 12 July 2017–Existentialism as humanization (Sartre)

Thursday, 13 July 2017–Reason & Existenz Part 1: Situation and Exception (Jaspers)

Lecture, First Half

Discussion, Second Half


WEEK TWO

Monday, 17 July 2017–Welcoming absurdity (Camus)

Tuesday, 18 July 2017–Angst beyond the crowd (Kierkegaard)

Kierkegaard lecture white board

Wednesday, 19 July 2017–The Will to Possibility (Nietzsche and Ortega y Gasset)

Thursday, 20 July 2017–Reason & Existenz Part 2: The Encompassing (Jaspers)


WEEK THREE

Monday, 24 July 2017, Openness as Thinkering (Heidegger)

Tuesday, 25 July 2017, Building Dwelling Thinking 1 (Heidegger)

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Previous blog post pertinent to this discussion:

Thing Think Thank

Thing Think Thank 2

Wednesday, 26 July 2017, Building Dwelling Thinking 2 (Heidegger)

Thursday, 27 July 2017, Reason and Existenz Part 3: Truth as Communicability (Jaspers)


WEEK FOUR

Monday, 31 July 2017, Three Short Stories Chopin Gilman Atwood 31Jul2017

Short stories available here

Tuesday, 02 Aug 2017, Ethics of Ambiguity Part 1 (de Beauvoir)

Wednesday, 03 Aug 2017, Ethics of Ambiguity Part 2 (de Beauvoir)

Thursday, 04 Aug 2017, Reason and Existenz Part 4: Priorities and Limits of Rational Thinking (Jaspers)


WEEK FIVE

Monday, 07 Aug 2017, Wretched of the Earth, Part 1: On Violence (Fanon)

Tuesday, 08 Aug 2017, Wretched of the Earth, Part 2: Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity (Fanon)

Wednesday, 09 Aug 2017, Wretched of the Earth, Part 3: The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness (Fanon)

Thursday, 10 Aug 2017, Reason and Existenz Part 5: Possibilities for Contemporary Philosophizing (Jaspers)

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