Syllabus
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.
Annotation
The second part of the introductory course into philosophy of existence we will be dealing with 20th century thinkers and their efforts at communicating and anylizing the specificity of human existence. Our main focus will be on Jaspers, Heidegger and Patočka, but also Franz Kafka.
The course will be designed in such a way as to accomodate new students who have not taken part in the first semester.