Updated syllabus for "Towards a Philosophy of Existence" Winter Term 2021

5	October	Introduction
12	October	A Prehistory of "Existence"
19	October	Kierkegaard I: Stages of Existence
		Reading: Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
26	October	Kierkegaard II: The Synthesis of Existence
		Reading: Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death
2	November	Kierkegaard: discussion
9	November	Nietzsche I: Introduction
16	November	Reading/Consultations Week
23	November	Nietzsche II: Metaphorical Existence
		Reading: Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies (…)
30	November	Nietzsche III: A Genealogy of the (also)Human
		Reading: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book I
7	December	Nietzsche: discussion
14	December	Kafka: Roaming Existence and The Castle
		Optional Reading: The Castle
21	December	Heidegger I: Intro into the Fundamental Ontology
4	January	Colloquium

Readings:

Overviews:

GOLOMB, J. In Search of Authenticity. From Kierkegaard to Camus. London/New York: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0-415-11946-4.

FLYNN, T. Existentialism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 978–0–19–280428–0.

Key Readings (note the "pp" indicating compulsory page-range):

KIERKEGAARD. S. The Sickness Unto Death. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-691-07247-7. pp. 6-74.

KIERKEGAARD. S. Fear and Trembling. In Fear and Trembling. Repetion. Kierkegaard´s Writings VI. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN 1-400810-329. pp. 1-123.

NIETZSCHE, F. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense. In Philosophy and Truth. Selections from Nietzsche´s Notebooks of the early 1870´s. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993. ISBN 978-1573925327. pp. 79-91.

NIETZSCHE, F. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-84171-9. pp. 3-59.

JASPERS., K. Philosophy of Existence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. ISBN 0-8122-7629-9. pp. 3-14.

PATOČKA, J. Body, Community, Language, World. Chicago: Open Court, 1998. ISBN 0-8126-9358-2. pp. 143-161.