Sylabus
February 22: Introduction
March 1: Kafka, Kafkology and the problem of blunt reading
March 8: Jaspers and the idea of prophetic philosophy
March 15: Jaspers the psychopathologist and the problem of human dignity
March 22: class cancelled, conference
March 29: Heidegger and the idea of humanism
April 5: Norberg Schulz on existential philosophy of architecture
April 19: Heidegger and fundamental ontology
April 26: Patočka on individuality and existence
May 3: Patočka and the three existential movements
May 10: Dostoyevsky’s Reader, or should we struggle towards a philosophy of existence?
May 17: Colloquium
Two notes: we will be doing a field trip, i.e. walking tour in Prague based on Norberg-Schulz’s Genius Loci. The date is TBA.
I will most likely be hosting a guest lecturer in the third April week and she might be giving a lecture in our class.
Anotace
Anglicky vyučovaný kurz, jehož druhá část je věnována filosofům existence 20. století (Jaspers, Heidegger, Patočka, ale rovněž Kafka). Absolvování první části kurzu není nutné.