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Existentialist Philosophy And Literature
Introduction To This Course
How This Class Works
Topics and Scope For Our Class
Your Instructor For The Class
Our Schedule for Class Sessions
(FAQ) Frequently Asked Questions
Discussion Forum - Introduce Yourself and Have Conversations
Our Texts For The Class
Readings For Each Week's Session
Course Texts Available Online For Free
Course Texts Purchasable Online
Recordings Of Class Sessions (posted after each session finishes)
About The Class Recordings
Recording Of Class Session 1
Recording Of Class Session 2
Recording Of Class Session 3
Recording Of Class Session 4
Recording Of Class Session 5
Recording Of Class Session 6
Recording Of Class Session 7
Recording Of Class Session 8
Recording Of Class Session 9
Week 1 - What Is Existentialism?
Overview Of Week 1: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 1 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Main Phases Of The Existentialist Movement
Handout - Provocative Quotes To Start From
Discussion Forum For Week 1
Week 2 - Søren Kierkegaard
Overview Of Week 2: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 2 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Kierkegaards Works and Pseudonyms
Handout - Kierkegaard On Knights In Fear and Trembling
Handout - Kierkegaard On The Three Stages
Handout - Kierkegaard On The Present Age and Contradictions
Discussion Forum For Week 2
Week 3 - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Overview Of Week 3: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 3 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Anger And The Underground Man
Handout - The Underground Man And Anti-Enlightenment
Handout - Characters and Ideologies In The Demons/The Possessed
Handout - The Grand Inquisitor's Three Temptations
Discussion Forum For Week 3
Week 4 - Friedrich Nietzsche
Overview Of Week 4: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 4 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Three Transformations or Metamorphoses
Handout - Moral Valuations In Genealogy of Morals
Handout - Punishment In Genealogy of Morals
Discussion Forum For Week 4
Week 5 - Lev Shestov
Overview Of Week 5: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 5 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Russian and European culture in All Things Are Possible
Discussion Forum For Week 5
Week 6 - Rainer Maria Rilke
Overview Of Week 6: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 6 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - What Rilke Means By Solitude
Selected Rilke Poems
Discussion Forum For Week 6
Week 7 - Miguel De Unamuno
Overview Of Week 7: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 7 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Unamuno’s Conception Of Philosophy And The Philosopher Of Flesh And Bone
Handout - Skepticism, Doubt, and Despair in Unamuno’s Tragic Sense Of Life
Discussion Forum For Week 7
Week 8 - Franz Kafka
Overview Of Week 8: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 8 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Interpretation Of The Parable “Before The Law” In Franz Kafka’s The Trial
Discussion Forum For Week 8
Week 9 - Martin Heidegger
Overview Of Week 9: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 9 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - The Significance Of The Nothing
Handout - Dasein, Being, and Beings
Handout - The Fourfold Equiprimordials and Temporality
Discussion Forum For Week 9
Week 10 - Gabriel Marcel
Overview Of Week 10: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 10 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Problems and Mysteries
Discussion Forum For Week 10
Week 11 - Jean-Paul Sartre
Overview Of Week 11: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 11 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Existence Preceding Essence
Handout - Four Characters in “The Wall"
Handout - Existential Reactions to One’s Own Death in “The Wall”
Discussion Forum For Week 11
Week 12 - Simone de Beauvoir
Overview Of Week 12: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 12 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - Woman as Other Second Sex
Handout - Problematic Existential Attitudes
Discussion Forum For Week 12
Week 13 - Albert Camus
Overview Of Week 13: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 13 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Handout - The Absurd In The Myth Of Sisyphus
Discussion Forum For Week 13
Week 14 - Frantz Fanon
Overview Of Week 14: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 14 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Week 15 - Keiji Nishitani
Overview Of Week 15: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning
Link For Week 15 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Week 16 - Wrapping Up The Class
Overview Of Week 16: What We Will Be Discussing and Learning
Link For Week 16 Online (Zoom) Session - 9:00 AM Central Time
Timeline Handouts On Philosophers (more coming soon)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Timeline
Friedrich Nietzsche Timeline
Lev Shestov Timeline
Rainer Maria Rilke Timeline
Franz Kafka Timeline
Martin Heidegger Timeline
Gabriel Marcel Timeline
Albert Camus Timeline
Simone De Beauvoir Timeline
PDFs of Texts For The Class
Soren Kierkegaard - The Crowd Is Untruth
Soren Kierkegaard - The Present Age
Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling (selections)
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground part 1
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (selections)
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra prologue and part 1
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Genealogy of Morals (selections)
Lev Shestov - All Things Are Possible
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke -The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge (supplemental)
Miguel de Unamuno - Tragic Sense of Life
Franz Kafka, On Parables
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, In The Penal Colony
Kafka, The Trial chapter 9 selections
Martin Heidegger - What Is Metaphysics?
Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (selections, supplemental)
Gabriel Marcel - Concrete Approaches To The Ontological Mystery
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre - No Exit
Simone de Beauvoir - The Ethics Of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (selections)
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
Frantz Fanon - Black Skin White Masks
Keiji Nishitani - The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (selections)
Secondary Literature On Existentialism
Alasdair MacIntyre - Existentialism encyclopedia entry
Mikel Dufrenne - Existentialism and Existentialisms
Paul Tillich - The Nature and the Significance of Existentialist Thought
Robert C. Solomon - Existentialism, Emotions, and the Cultural Limits of Rationality
John Wild - Existentialism as a Philosophy
Handout - Interpretation Of The Parable “Before The Law” In Franz Kafka’s The Trial
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