February 22: Introduction

March 1: Kafka, Kafkology and the problem of blunt reading

March 8: Jaspers and the idea of prophetic philosophy

March 15: Jaspers the psychopathologist and the problem of human dignity

March 22: class cancelled, conference

March 29: Heidegger and the idea of humanism

April 5: Norberg Schulz on existential philosophy of architecture

April 19: Heidegger and fundamental ontology

April 26: Patočka on individuality and existence

May 3: Patočka and the three existential movements

May 10: Dostoyevsky’s Reader, or should we struggle towards a philosophy of existence?

May 17: Colloquium

Two notes: we will be doing a field trip, i.e. walking tour in Prague based on Norberg-Schulz’s Genius Loci. The date is TBA.

I will most likely be hosting a guest lecturer in the third April week and she might be giving a lecture in our class.