Difficult Being. The Concept of Existence in Modern Philosophy - AFS100750

• Title: Difficult Being. The Concept of Existence in Modern Philosophy
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=10263#section-0
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D.; Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric.; doc. Mgr. Tereza Matějčková, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric. (30.09.2020)

This is the reading seminar in English associated with the Skelet course (for Charles University Students only): AFS100749: Těžké je být. Pojem existence v moderní filosofii

--> Office hours: Thursday 10:00-11:00 (in case you want to do it on-line, just send me an email)

1.10.2020: Quick presentation of the Seminar

8.10.2020: M. Marx, Estranged Labor, from the Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 69-84 + Theses on Feuerbach, from The Marx-Engels Reader

15.10.2020: Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. II, V, VI

22.10.2020: Husserl, Ideas II, §§ 35-41

29.10.2020: Heidegger, Being and Time, §§4, 9, 25-27

5.11.2020: Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Introduction: III, VI, + Part I: Ch. V (The origin of nothingness)

12.11.2020: Sartre, Existentialism is a humanism + Heidegger, The Letter on Humanism: pages 239-251; 262-264

19.11.2020: Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Ch. 1, 2

26.11.2020: Nagel, What is it like to be a bat? + L. BonJour, What is it like to be a human being?
What is it like to be a human (instead of a bat)?

3.12.2020: Foucault, The Subject and Power

10.12.2020: Agamben, Homo Sacer: Ch. 2, §§1, 3; Ch. III, §§1, 3, 7

17.12.2020: Arendt, The Human Condition, Ch. 5, §§ 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34

7.1.2021: Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself, Ch. 1

Course completion requirements

Last update: Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric. (28.09.2020)

Given that we will be working remotely, the reading seminar will have the form below, and students will be evaluated on the basis of the following parameters:

 

(1) Each week a few questions on a specific text will be uploaded on Moodle, and students will be asked to answer them and send back to me by the next Tuesday evening.

(2) I will read the answers, correct them, then every Thursday we will have a short online discussion concerning them. I will assess your answers and any further questions/concerns about the text that you might have

 

In case you are interested in attending the English seminar, send me an email (this is just to make sure I know who might be taking part in it): [e-mail]

 

For what concerns our first class (next week on Thursday) I myself will email those who are registered on SIS to see who wants to participate and who does not want. 

 

NOta bene: To access the online seminar, you need to use the Zoom link that can be found on Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=10263