Existentialist Philosophy
instructed by
balmetin@gmail.com
DOKUZ EYLUL UnIversIty, İZMİR
Graduate School of SocIal ScIences
The Department of PhIlosophy
COURSE INFORMATION FORM
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Name of Course |
Existentialist Philosophy |
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Code of Course |
PHIL 5020 |
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Compulsory / Selective of Course |
Elective |
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Level of Course |
Master of Arts Degree |
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ECTS |
5 |
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Hours (T) |
3 |
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Semester of Course |
Spring / II. Semester |
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Course Lecturer |
Felsefe Bölümü, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Öğretim Üyeleri Binası, Tınaztepe Yerleşkesi, PK: 35370, Buca - İzmir, Türkiye. Tel: ++ 90 (232) 412 79 03 - dahili tel: 19411, Fax: ++ 90 (232) 453 90 93 E-Posta: balmetin@gmail.com , Web: www.metinbal.net |
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Education system of the Course (Formal education, Distance education) |
Formal/organized education (Örgün Eğitim) |
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Language of Course (Turkish, English, German) |
Turkish |
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Course Objectives
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Existentialist philosophy is investigated by reading Heidegger's and Sartre's masterpieces. The basic concepts of existentialism developed by Heidegger and Sartre are traced back in the history of philosophy. |
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● The presentations are expected to be made at the appointed time. ● The papers are submitted at a set time. ● Attendance to the lectures is required.
Additional Auxiliary Activities Recommended For Participants Short-term activities: 1-) Participants of this course are expected to give a presentation on the major work of related philosopher to see to what extend knows the graduate student his/her subject. 2-) Archieve research on the primary and secondary sources of the subject. 3-) Biographical study about the philosopher. 4-) Study of chronological list of the complete works of related subject. 5-) Submission of weekly study of technical terms of the subject. 6-) The participants are expected to be interdisciplinary and to get in contact with other sciences. Long-term activities: 7-) The participants are expected to immerse themselves in building foreign language skills. 8-) Retrospective and prospective readings in the history of philosophy about the subject. |
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LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1. The participants gain the knowledge of the basic concepts of existentialist philosophy. 2. The participants are able to evaluate the ideas developed by Heidegger and Sartre related to existentialism. 3. The participants are able to make comparisons between the ideas of thinkers such as Heidegger and Sartre. 4. The participants could ground these ideas on a solid basis. 5. The participants equip themselves with an intellectual capital that renders them critic in the field of existentialist philosophy. |
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Course Content |
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WEEKLY BASED DETAILED COURSE CONTENTS
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Practice |
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The roots of existentialist philosophy: Augustin, Pascal, Spinoza, Kierkegaard |
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Nietzsche and the philosophy of life |
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Heidegger and destruction of metaphysics |
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Dasein, question of Being ve temporality |
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Care (Sorge) |
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From philosophy to thinking | ||
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Onto-teological construction of metaphysics and a new beginning |
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MIDTERM EXAM |
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Phenomenological ontology and Sartre |
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Commitment of a thinker |
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The problem of "nothingness" |
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Human action and freedom |
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Humanist existentialism |
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Nausea |
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The Roads to Freedom |
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FINAL EXAM |
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Fredric, Jameson (1991) Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Durham: Duke University Press.
Heidegger, Martin (1985) Being and Time, tr. by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Heidegger, Martin (2002) Identity and Difference, tr. and with int. By Joan Stambaugh, New York: Harper&Row.
“Ortak” Bir Dile Doğru Yolda Olmak mı? Heidegger’in Japon Bir Ziyaretçi İle Diyaloğu” (“On The Way to a “Common” Language? Heidegger’s Dialogue with a Japenese Visitor”), Zhang Wei
Kierkegaard, Soren (1983) Fear and Trembling & Repetition, ed. and tr. by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong with introduction and Notes, Princeton: University Press.
Kierkegaard, Søren (1987) Either/Or, Part II, ed. and tr. by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong with Int. and Notes, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Nietzsche, Friedrich (2007) The Gay Science, edited by Bernard Williams, tr. by Josefine Nauckhoff, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pascal, Blaise (1941) Pensées & The Provincial Letters, tr. by W.F. Trotter and Thomas M’Crie, New York: The Modern Library.
Peter, Mc. and Elliston, A. (ed. 1981) Husserl’s Shorter Works, revised translation by Richard E. Palmer Cormick, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1947) The Age of Reason, tr. by Eric Sutton, New York: Knopf.
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1956) Being and Nothingness, tr. by Hazel E. Barnes, New York: Routledge.
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1965) Two Plays: The Respectable Prostitute & Lucifer and The Lord, tr. by Kitty Black with an introduction by Geoffrey Brereton, Middlesex: Penguin.
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1966) Existentialism and Humanism, translation and introduction by Philip Mairet, London: Methuen & Co. LTD.
Sartre, Jean-Paul (2001) What is Literature?, tr. by Bernard Frechman, with an introduction by David Caute, London and New York: Routledge.
Sartre, Jean-Paul (2010) The Imaginary, A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination, with introduction by Arlette Eelkaim-Sartre and Jonathan Webber, London: Routledge.
