BASC70237 - Heidegger's Being and Time

Course Description

When Heidegger published Being and Time in 1927, he profoundly changed the face of Western philosophy on the European continent and beyond. Building on Husserl's radical critique of Descartes and founding of Phenomenology, Heidegger here lays out a radically new understanding of what it means to exist as human in the world. He rejects traditional assumptions about the nature of mind and body and of objects in the world, and attempts to lay out the meaning of human existence beginning from a core understanding human experience as we first experience it, in a wholistic awareness of ourselves as embedded in a world that pre-exists us, necessarily involves relationships with others, requires uncertain but consequential decisions in our limited lifetimes and ever impending death. His philosophy is also based in a "retrieval" of early Greek philosophical thought, using this to challenge critical aspects of modern philosophy, including the rationalism that privileges technological thinking and systems. We will read and discuss the the text (leaving off the final chapter's engagement with Hegel, which sets up an uncompleted section of the work) slowly over our 10 weeks, using the Revised Stambaugh translation of Being and Time. Course Syllabus.

Notes

Online registration deadline: Dec. 22, 5 PM CT

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