Heidegger and the Temporal Sense of Being
CHUM 327
Fall 2015 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
PHIL 389 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
Martin Heidegger claims in BEING AND TIME that the most fundamental philosophical question is the question of the sense of being, but that this question has been obscured and trivialized in the Western philosophical tradition. His book aimed to recover an understanding of this question and to show how temporality and time are central to an adequate grasp of the sense of being. This advanced seminar is not a course on Heidegger but is instead an attempt to clarify and address this question concerning the temporal sense of being. We are reading BEING AND TIME and various secondary literature as guides to what it would mean to "reawaken" that question. Since this question is also thought to replace or reformulate many familiar problems in philosophy--about meaning and intentionality, knowledge, agency/normativity, and metaphysics (as about entities rather than the being of those entities)--and to relocate others (truth, objectivity, historicity, and what it is to be human), we shall consider the significance of and rationale for these replacements and relocations. We shall give special attention to the role accorded to time and temporality in understanding being, and especially to the claim that any understanding of being is and must be finite. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (PHIL)(PHIL-Philosophy)(PHIL-Social Jus) |
Major Readings:
Heidegger, BEING AND TIME
John Haugeland, DASEIN DISCLOSED
William Blattner, HEIDEGGER'S TEMPORAL IDEALISM (selections)
Mark Okrent, HEIDEGGER'S PRAGMATISM (selections)
Taylor Carmen, HEIDEGGER'S ANALYTIC (selections)
plus shorter secondary literature on Heidegger and the question of the sense of being
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Examinations and Assignments:
1 expository essay on an issue raised in Being and Time, Division I
1 term paper, developed throughout the semester on a central issue in the course
Frequent seminar presentations to introduce an issue or question for discussion |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
At least one day before the end of pre-registration, interested students should enter a POI request, AND email the instructor (jrouse@wesleyan.edu) a list of the courses you have previously taken in Philosophy, in Social/Cultural/ Critical Theory, or in SISP, and any other BRIEF considerations relevant to your admission to the course. |
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