Lecture & Film Schedule - Last update 4/21/06

Jan. 17               Introduction: What is Existentialism?

Jan. 19, 24, 26     Fear & Trembling - Preamble from Heart

Jan. 31              Hiroshima mon amour

Feb. 2                Discussion of film

Feb. 7                Fear & Trembling, Problema I

Feb. 9               The Third Man

Feb. 14               Discussion of film

Feb. 16               Fear & Trembling, Problema II

Feb. 21, 23          Sickness Unto Death (xeroxed excerpts)

Feb. 27            FIRST PAPER DUE

Feb. 28, March 2    Brothers Karamazov, Part I

March 7, 9, 14       Brothers Karamazov, Part II

March 16, 21, (23)     Brothers Karamazov, Part III

April 4, 6          Brothers Karamazov, Part IV

April 11, 13          Brothers Karamazov, Conclusion

April 17            Second PAPER DUE

April 18           Twilights of the Idols (excerpts)

April 20,                     The Gay Science (excerpts)

Nietsche Assignments

April 24                        The Gay Science (excerpts) 5:30- 7:00, 159 Mulford.

April 25                         Breathless 145 Dwinelle

April 26 .            Discuss Breathless Wed. 5:30- 7:00 , Valley LSB 2050

April 27th            No class

May 2, 4,              The Gay Science (excerpts), The Anti-Christ (excerpts)

May 9                                    Conclusion

Required Reading:   Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov (Penguin)

                             Kierkegaard, Fear & Trembling (Penguin)

                             Nietzsche, The Gay Science (Vintage)

                                    Twilight of the Idols (Penguin)

Recommended:      Duras, M., Hiroshima Mon Amour (Grove Press)

                            Dudley, A., (ed.), Breathless (Rutgers U. Press)

Requirements:  

(1) Three 5-page papers on subjects to be selected from a list of suggested paper topics, or on a topic approved by your instructor.

(2) Approximately 200 pages of reading per week      

(3) A final examination                   

(4) Attendance at weekly discussion sections