Anotace
This is the reading seminar in English associated with the Skelet course (for Charles University Students only): AFS100749: Těžké je být. Pojem existence v moderní filosofii
--> Office hours: Thursday 10:00-11:00 (in case you want to do it on-line, just send me an email) 1.10.2020: Quick presentation of the Seminar 8.10.2020: M. Marx, Estranged Labor, from the Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 69-84 + Theses on Feuerbach, from The Marx-Engels Reader 15.10.2020: Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. II, V, VI 22.10.2020: Husserl, Ideas II, §§ 35-41 29.10.2020: Heidegger, Being and Time, §§4, 9, 25-27 5.11.2020: Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Introduction: III, VI, + Part I: Ch. V (The origin of nothingness) 12.11.2020: Sartre, Existentialism is a humanism + Heidegger, The Letter on Humanism: pages 239-251; 262-264 19.11.2020: Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Ch. 1, 2 26.11.2020: Nagel, What is it like to be a bat? + L. BonJour, What is it like to be a human being?
What is it like to be a human (instead of a bat)? 3.12.2020: Foucault, The Subject and Power 10.12.2020: Agamben, Homo Sacer: Ch. 2, §§1, 3; Ch. III, §§1, 3, 7 17.12.2020: Arendt, The Human Condition, Ch. 5, §§ 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34 7.1.2021: Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself, Ch. 1