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Class number:
2667
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Title: Anxiety, History, Language |
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Department: Philosophy |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 25 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 8 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |
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End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, SH - N128 |
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Instructor(s): Ewegen, Shane |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
This course will offer a survey of some of the major schools in 20th century European thought, such as existentialism, phenomenology, feminism, western Marxism, deconstruction, and beyond. Thinkers may include: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Simone De Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and others. Topics may include: the role of anxiety in self-understanding; the world-forming structures of language; the role of ideology in social / political structures; the problematic character of patriarchy, and the various philosophical attempts to dismantle it. |