Description
Beginning with Kant?s ?critical philosophy? and its reception through the 20th century, this course offers an introduction to continental philosophy by tracing the challenge and critique of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment through competing notions of history, time, and critique. To provide an endcap to the philosophy sequence, the course includes an immersive engagement with a singular contemporary philosophical text. Students are required to conduct close reading, vigorous analysis, and supplementary research to support argumentation and debate in classroom seminars on the text in question. The text is chosen annually and is held in common throughout the school. Possible readings include: Bataille, Ortega y Gassett, Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Arendt, Adorno, Irigaray, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Topics include: hermeneutics; the question of being; dialectics; historical materialism; power; discipline; duration; plurality; the political; language games; phenomenology; diff?