Syllabus
The list of readings in class: 1 Arendt, H., The Human Condition, University of Chicago Press 1998, chapters: "Prologue", "Vita Activa and the human condition", "The term Vita activa", p. 1-17.2 Kierkegaard, S., The Concept of Anxiety, Princeton University Press 1980, chapters: "The Concept of Anxiety", "Anxiety as the presupposition of hereditary sin...", p. 41-51.3 Habermas, J., The Future of Human Nature, Polity Press 2003, chapter: "Are there post-metaphysical answers to the question: what is the "Good life"?", p. 1-15.4 Darwin, Ch., On the Origin of Species, Oxford University Press 2008, chapter: "Natural Selection", p. 63-100.5 Kant, I., Practical Philosophy, Cambridge University Press 2012, chapter: "An answer to the question: What is enlightenment?", p. 11-22.6 Hegel, G.W.F, Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford University Press 1977, chapter: "Lordship and Bondage", p. 111-119.7 Sirois, F. M., "Introduction: Conceptualizing the Relations of Procrastination to Health and Well-Being", in F.M.
Sirois & T.A. Pychyl (eds.), Procrastination, Health, and Well-Being, Academic Press/Elsevier 2016, p. 1-20.8 Descartes, R., Meditations on First Philosophy, Oxford University Press 2008, chapters: "First Meditation", "Second Meditation", p. 13-24.9 Marx, K., "Estranged Labor", in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Prometheus Books 1988, p. 69-84.10 Patočka, J., Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, Open Court 1996, Chapters: Fifth or Sixth Essays, p. 95-118 or 119-138. 11 Beauvoir, S., The Coming of Age, G.P.
Putnam's Sons 1972, chapters: Introduction & Preface, p. 1-13.
Annotation
This seminar will allow serious students interested in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy to participate in the tradition of close reading of primary texts. The purpose is to understand the prerequisites for understanding challenging philosophical works that require careful and perceptive reading.
In the Winter 2022 semester, we will begin with Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety. We will arrange the next text with the course participants.