10/02/21 Continental Philosophy | University of Kent
Continental Philosophy View Online
This module begins by thinking about what is meant by Continental philosophy and how this differs from analytical approaches. Having considered this it then moves on to consider some of the key thinkers that are generally placed under the Continental umbrella and how the concepts of the subject, identity and, indeed, the political are dealt with by them.
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Preliminary Reading (2 items)
It would be highly advantageous if you could read this before the start of the course.
Continental philosophy: an introduction - West, David, 2010 Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 2 'Modernity, Enlightenment and their Continental Critics'
Continental philosophy: a critical approach - Schroeder, William Ralph, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read) | Introduction
Week One (2 items)
Continental philosophy: a very short introduction - Critchley, Simon, 2001 Book | REQUIRED READING
The idea of continental philosophy: a philosophical chronicle - Glendinning, Simon, c2006 Book | Suggested further reading
Week Two (5 items)
What is phenomenology? - Simon Glendinning, 2004-6 Article | REQUIRED READING
Being and time - Heidegger, Martin, 1962 Book | REQUIRED READING: Sections 14-18 'The Worldhood of the World'
Continental philosophy since 1750: the rise and fall of the self - Solomon, Robert C., 1988 Book | Suggested further reading
Introduction to phenomenology - Moran, Dermot, 2000 Book
Understanding hermeneutics - Schmidt, Lawrence K., 2006 Book
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Week Three (6 items)
Dialectic of enlightenment - Adorno, Theodor W., Horkheimer, Max, 1986 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception'
Ju ̈ rgen Habermas on society and politics: a reader - Habermas, Ju ̈ rgen, Seidman, Steven, 1989 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society'
An essay on liberation - Marcuse, Herbert, 1972 Book | Suggested further reading
One-dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society - Marcuse, H., 1964 Book | Suggested further reading
The idea of critical theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School - Geuss, Raymond, 1981 Book | Suggested further reading
Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas - Held, David, 1990 Book | Suggested further reading
Week Four (2 items)
The second sex - Beauvoir, Simone de, Borde, Constance, Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila, 2009 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'Women's Situation and Character'
Routledge phenomenology reader - Moran, Dermot, Mooney, Timothy, 2002 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'What is Existenz Philosophy' Hannah Arendt
Week 5 (4 items)
Basic writings: from Being and time (1927) to The task of thinking (1964) - Heidegger, Martin, Krell, David Farrell, 2010 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'Letter on Humanism'
E ́ crits: a selection - Lacan, Jacques, Sheridan, Alan, 2001 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'The Mirror Stage'
Structuralism - Sturrock, John, 2003 Book | Suggested further reading
French philosophy in the twentieth century - Gutting, Gary, 2001
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Book | Suggested further reading Chapter 8
Week Seven (6 items)
The Foucault reader - Foucault, Michel, Rabinow, Paul, 1986 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'What is Enlightenment?' and 'Truth and Power'
Speech and phenomena, and other essays on Husserl's theory of signs - Derrida, Jacques, 1973 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'Differance'
French philosophy in the twentieth century - Gutting, Gary, 2001 Book | Suggested further reading, Chps 9 and 10
Derrida: a guide for the perplexed - Wolfreys, Julian, c2007 Book | Suggested further reading, a very useful book
Foucault: a critical introduction - McNay, Lois, 1994 Book | Suggested further reading
Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory - Weedon, Chris, 1987 Book | Suggested further reading
Week Eight (4 items)
The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge - Lyotard, Jean-Franc ̧ ois, 1984 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?'
The anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture - Foster, Hal, c2002 Book | REQUIRED READING: 'The Ecstacy of Communication' Jean Baudrillard
The consumer society: myths and structures - Baudrillard, Jean, 1998 Book | Suggested further reading
Modernity and the Holocaust - Bauman, Zygmunt, 2013 Book | Suggested further reading
Week Nine (4 items)
Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange - Benhabib, Seyla, 1995 Book | REQUIRED READING pp.17-75
Beyond identity politics: feminism, power & politics - Lloyd, Moya, 2005 Book | Suggested further reading
The politics of our selves: power, autonomy, and gender in contemporary critical theory -
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Allen, Amy, 2013 Book | Suggested further reading
Gender and agency: reconfiguring the subject in feminist and social theory - McNay, Lois, 2000 Book | Suggested further reading
Week Ten (3 items)
State of exception - Agamben, Giorgio, Dawsonera, 2005 Book | REQUIRED READING : Chapter 1
Post-foundational political thought: political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau - Marchart, Oliver, c2007 Book | Suggested further reading
Being singular plural - Nancy, Jean-Luc, 2000 Book | Suggested further reading
Week Eleven (2 items)
Emancipation(s) - Laclau, Ernesto, 1996 Book | REQUIRED READING:' Subject of POlitics, Politics of the Subject'
Great Minds - Slavoj Zizek - 12 Aug 2011 Audio-visual document | REQUIRED WATCHING
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