What does 'existence' mean today? Traditionally, philosophy tended to separate living beings into mind and body, subject and object. In the early twentieth century, however, a group of philosophers called "phenomenologists", as well as "existentialists" and others, developed new approaches meant to overcome this separation and to produce a unified view of human life, based on a concrete description of our mental processes and of lived experience.
Soren Kierkegaard, Either-Or
Nietzsche, The Gay Science; Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life
Karl Jaspers, Philosophy of existence
J.P. Sartre, Essays in Existentialism
Hannah Arendt, The Banality of Evil. On Revolution.
Michel Foucault, The Technologies of the Self
Raymond Ruyer, Finalist Activity and Organic Life (Neo-Finalism)
Francisco Varela, Organism, Cognitive Science and the Emergence of Selfless Selves
Federica Bongiorno, From the ExtendedMmind to the Extended Self
FILM:
The 25th Hour, Spike Lee, 2002
I WEEK
Intro
II WEEK
Kierkegaard
III WEEK
Nietzsche
IV WEEK
Simmel
V WEEK
Jaspers
VI WEEK
Sartre
VII WEEK
Camus
MIDTERM
VIII WEEK
Guest lecture Kanchana Mahavedan
IX WEEK
Baudrillard
X WEEK
Ruyer
XI WEEK
Varela
XII WEEK
Sloterdijk
Bongiorno
XIII WEEK
Review
XIV WEEK
Review