Hey Everybody,
I have finished putting together the tentative schedule for my first Modern European Philosophy Class. For those of you who will be taking the class or are interested in giving me feedback on anything you like or think is missing, please email me or send me a message on Facebook.
Jan 25 Introduction: Modernity, the Analytic & Continental Traditions
Feb 1 Rationalism: Descartes, Spinoza & Leibniz
Feb 8 Empiricism: Locke & Hume
Feb 15 NO CLASS - Lincoln’s Birthday
Feb 22 Idealism: Berkeley & Kant
Mar 1 Phenomenology: Hegel & Merleau-Ponty (First Paper Due)
Mar 8 Pessimism: Schopenhauer & Kierkegaard
Mar 15 Nietzsche & Bataille (Review for Midterm Exam)
Mar 22 MIDTERM EXAM (Second Paper Due)
Mar 29 NO CLASS - Spring Break
Apr 5 Existentialism: Heidegger & Sartre
Apr 12 Logical Positivism & Analytic Philosophy: Russell & Wittgenstein
Apr 19 Utilitarianism & Pragmatism: Mill & Rorty
Apr 26 Philosophy of Science: Popper & Feyerabend (Third Paper Due)
May 3 Structuralism & Poststructuralism: Barthes & Foucault
May 10 Postmodernism & Antimodernism (Review for Final Exam)
May 17 NO CLASS - Malcolm X Day
May 24 FINAL EXAM (Fourth Paper Due)
