Existentialism

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This course covers figures and topics from the beginnings of Existentialism in the nineteenth-century to the present. Topics can include freedom, selfhood, anxiety, despair, nothingness, meaninglessness, death, the limits of reason, authentic and inauthentic existence, borderlands, and others. Existential works from literature, psychoanalysis, religion, and philosophy can be included with focused attention on such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Buber, Rosenzweig, Jaspers, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Marcel, Camus, de Beauvoir, Weil, Bergson, Fanon, Anzaldúa, and others. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Writing, and Math