Existentialism
Spring 2011, Wednesday 11:45 am - 1:15 pm

Steven Schroeder

TEXTS:

Søren Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling and Repetition. Kierkegaard's Writings, VI. Princeton University Press, 1983. 9780691020266.

Jean Paul Sartre. Essays in Existentialism. Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2000. 9780806501628.

Albert Camus. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Knopf Doubleday, 1991. 9780679733737.

Simone de Beauvoir. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2000. 9780806501604.

4/6: Fear and Trembling, pp.1-53 (through the "Preliminary Expectoration")
4/13: Fear and Trembling, pp.54-123 (Problema I, Problema II, Problema III, and Epilogue)
4/20: Repetition
4/27: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, pp.1-65 ("An Absurd Reasoning")
5/4: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, pp.66-138 ("The Absurd Man," "Absurd Creation," "The Myth of Sisyphus" and "Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka")
5/11: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, pp.187-212 ("Helen's Exile," "Return to Tipasa," and "The Artist and His Time") | Camus, "The Misunderstanding" [pdf]
5/18: Essays in Existentialism, Part I and II
5/25: Essays in Existentialism, Part V | [Sartre, "No Exit"]
6/1 [10:00 AM - 1:15 PM]: The Ethics of Ambiguity
6/8: Selections from Beauvoir's The Second Sex | Twelve short pieces by Kafka (translated by Ian Johnston)
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