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| | Philosophy 235, Spring 00, Schrift |
 | | During the semester, special attention will also be focused on connections between 20th century philosophy and developments in other humanistic and social science disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and social/political theory. |
 | | Beginning with an examination of the origins of 20th-century European philosophy in phenomenology (Husserl), we will move on to examine existentialism (Sartre and Merleau-Ponty), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Gadamer), critical theory (Arendt, Benjamin, Habermas), structuralism (Saussure, Lacan), post-structuralism and deconstruction (Foucault, Derrida), French feminism (Cixous), and postmodernism (Lyotard). |
 | | Among the themes covered will include the relation between science and philosophy, the relations between language and thinking, the place of the subject in the human sciences and philosophy, the critique of foundationalism, and the functions of ideology, interpretation, power, and desire in the search for "knowledge" and "truth". |
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