Introduction to Heidegger

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This course introduces students to the thought of Martin Heidegger. For the first 8 weeks of the course, we focus on Heideggers magnum opus, Being and Time, exploring such themes as phenomenology, death, guilt, conscience, and time, in connection with Heideggers overarching attempt to find a way of asking what being means. In the final two weeks we turn our attention to Heidegger's elusive and enigmatic later writings, such as Building, Dwelling, Thinking and Poetically, Man Dwells, focusing our attention on questions of the degree of our alienation from the world, and the potential of poetry and thought for overcoming our situation.