Schedule

PL 311 - 20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS: 1:00-2:15P
BORSERINE 403, SPRING SEMESTER 2011

DATE READINGS - CPR IS OUR COURSE TEXT; OCR STANDS FOR READINGS FOUND ON OUR COURSE WEBSITE
1/18 Syllabus & other discussions
1/20 Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy & The Twilight of the Idols (OCR)
1/25 Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics (OCR) 
Sara Bartlett presentation on Nietzsche
Kyle Morehead presentation on Heidegger
1/27 Class canceled: Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics
2/1 Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics
2/3 Heidegger: Being and Time (CPR, pp. 23-52)

2/8 Heidegger: Anxiety (CPR 48-52)
Ryan King presentation on Heidegger
2/10 Sartre: Existentialism & Humanism (CPR, 62-76)
Blake Morgan presentation on Sartre
2/15 Sartre: The Respectful Prostitute (OCR)
Elizabeth Monteer presentation on Sartre
2/17 Sartre: The Respectful Prostitute (OCR)
2/22 de Beauvoir: Second Sex (CPR 93-108)
Renèe Rudder presentation on de Beauvoir
2/24 Levinas: Ethics as First Philosophy (CPR 122-135)
Emily Hamblin presentation on Levinas
3/1 Levinas: Transcendence & Height (OCR)  (Reading Response #1 Due)
Gaby Fierro-Cheda presentation on Levinas
3/3 Levinas: Transcendence & Height (OCR)
3/8 Review for examination
3/10 Examination #1
3/15-17 None – Spring Break
3/22 Lukács: Reification (CPR 169-180)
3/24 Horkheimer & Adorno: The Concept of Enlightenment (CPR 194-211)
3/29 Horkheimer & Adorno: The Concept of Enlightenment (CPR 194-211)
3/31 Benjamin: Theses on the Philosophy of History (CPR 212-223) Ryan King Presentation
4/5
Kristeva: Women's Time (CPR 378-401) Emily Hamlin & Gaby Fierro-Cheda Presentation
4/7 Deleuze: What is Philosophy? (CPR 402-410) Jermaine Thomas Presentation
4/12 Foucault: Discourse on Language (CPR 336-360) Sara Bartlett Presentation
4/14 Foucault: What is Enlightenment? (OCR) Elizabeth Monteer Presentation
4/19 Foucault: Two Lectures (OCR) Renée Rudder & Kyle Morehead Presentation
4/21 None – Easter Break
4/26 Foucault: Two Lectures (OCR)
4/28 Derrida: Différance (CPR 438-464) Blake Morgan Presentation
5/3 Derrida: Différance (CPR 438-464) (Reading Response #2 Due)
5/5
Conclusion, Epilogue, Afterword
Essay due
Course evaluations
5/11
Final Examination Time: 2p-350p
Take-home due @ 2p

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