Existentialist Phenomenology

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This course examines the origins of the rigorous description of existential phenomena - including perception, knowledge, passivity, the body, finitude, death, and intersubjectivity - in the early 20th century phenomenological tradition of its founder Edmund Husserl and his student Martin Heidegger. Then the mid-20th century French existentialist appropriation of these phenomenological themes will be critically studied in some of the shorter works of, among others, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Prerequisites: ( PHIL100 or CORE105) and ( PHIL290 or PHIL200) Course Attributes: Humanities Elect/Integrations College of Arts & Sciences Philosophy