PHIL 410 - Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Units: 3

Phenomenology is the philosophical study of subjective experience, exploring how our knowledge of the self and world emerges from our lived experience of daily life. Existential philosophy, or existentialism, uses phenomenological methods in order to articulate the basic state of human existence as being in the world. Examines leading thinkers such as Kierkegaard, James, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Buber, and Levinas. Philosophical themes are explored in films and/or literary texts by authors including Camu, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Ellison, etc.