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University of California, Davis
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Davis, CA 95616
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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This is the home page of G. J. Mattey's Philosophy 157, Twentieth Century European Philosophy, Fall Quarter, 2016.
The Course
From the General Catalog: Prerequisite: one course in Philosophy recommended. Survey of the main movements in twentieth century philosophy on the European continent, including phenomenology, existentialism, post-structuralism and post-modernism. Philosophers covered are Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida. GE credit: ArtHum.
The Topic
We will read from works of each of the philosophers listed above. The Husserl reading will be from his 1927 encyclopedia article, “Phenomenology.” From Heidegger we will read selections from his most famous work, Being and Time. The Sartre reading will be from his best-known book, Being and Nothingness. Selections will be taken from several of the works of Foucault. Finally, we will look at selections from Derrida’s essays “Differance” and “Signature, Event, Context.”