APHI 336, Fall 2008, TuTh TTH 10:15-11:35
Room: SS-133
http://www.fecundity.com/courses
P.D. Magnus
Campus phone: x2-4251
Office hours: W 11:00-noon, Th 2:45-3:45, and by appointment
Texts:
The following are available at the campus bookstore and at Mary Jane's:
Sartre, Being and Nothingness [BN]
ISBN: 0-671-86780-6
de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity [EA]
ISBN: 080650160X
In addition, several readings will be available on E-Res.
Requirements:
25% paper
25% first mid-term exam
25% second mid-term exam
25% final exam
Class participation:
Participation in class discussion is required. Exemplary participation will add to your grade, up to two-thirds of a letter grade.
Academic honesty:The paper should include citations to any works cited or consulted, as well as acknowledgments of helpful interactions.
Cheating will not be tolerated.
The paper: The paper will be five pages on an assigned topic. It will be considered late if it is not handed in at or before the beginning of class on the day it is due. Each day late will result in a loss of one letter grade.
Absences: Students who will need to miss exam dates for foreseeable reasons should discuss them with the professor at the beginning of the term. If an emergency results in absence, the student should contact the professor as soon as possible. Make-up exams will be given only for documented, excused absences.
Schedule of topics: Specific readings may take more or less time than indicated, but due dates and the dates of exams are fixed.
Week 1
aug26: Introduction
aug28: What's existentialism?
Read Sartre, `Existentialism...'
Week 2
sep02: cont.
sep04: Literature and death.
Read `No exit'
Week 3
sep09: Kierkegaard.
Read `The Present Age'
sep11: cont.
Week 4
sep16: Nietzsche.
Read [selections]
sep18: cont.
Week 5
sep23: The phenomenological tradition + PAPER DUE
sep25: Negation and nothingness.
Read BN pp. 33-44, 56-69
Week 6
sep30: NO CLASS
oct02: FIRST MIDTERM EXAM
Week 7
oct07: Bad faith.
Read BN pp. 86-90, 96-116
oct09: NO CLASS
Week 8
oct14: The look of the other.
Read BN pp. 301-303, 340-355
oct16: Freedom!
Read BN pp. 619-629, 647-653, 701-711
Week 9
oct21: Implications. Read BN pp. 785-798
oct23: cont.
Week 10
oct28: Another viewpoint.
Read Marcel, `The ego...'
oct30: cont.
Week 11
nov04: SECOND MIDTERM EXAM
nov06: The ethics of ambiguity.
Read EA ch.I
Week 12
nov11: Relations with others. Read EA ch.II
nov13: The positive project. Read EA ch.III §§1-2
Week 13
nov18: The future. Read EA ch.III §§3-4
nov20: Ambiguity. Read EA ch.II §5
Week 14
nov25: cont. Read EA conclusion
nov27: NO CLASS
Week 15
dec02: continued
dec05: So what was existentialism?