UNSW Handbook Course - Existential Phenomenology and its Critics

Existential Phenomenology and its Critics - PHIL2419


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Philosophy
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 6 units of credit in level 1 Philosophy and 36 units of credit overall
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

Explores ideas of human existence that have emerged from 20th Century existential phenomenology, especially those of Merleau-Ponty. These ideas challenge the way we usually understand the role of the body in agency and perception, meaning and sense, temporality and spatiality, intersubjectivity and self-other relations, community, and freedom. In exploring these themes, background is provided by aspects of Sartre's and Beauvoir's existentialism. Recent advances to the field are examined through sympathetic critics such as Levinas and Nancy.

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