Lecture Schedule

August 24
Introduction: Background from Being and Time

August 26, 31, Sept. 2, 7
"The Origin of the Work of Art" (1933)

Sept. 14, 16, 21, 23
Basic Questions of Philosophy (l937)

Sept. 28
"Way back in to the Ground of Metaphysics" (1949) (Reader)

Sept. 30, Oct. 5, 7, 12
"The Age of the World Picture" (1938)

Oct. 8
First Paper Due

Oct. 14, 19
"The Question Concerning Technology" (l955)

Oct. 21
"The Thing" (1949)

Oct. 26
Borgmann, Technology...Contemporary Life, Chs. 9 and 23 (Reader)

Oct. 28
"Building Dwelling Thinking" (l951)

Nov. 2, 4
"Language" (l950)

Nov. 9, 11
"On the Way to Language" (l959)

Nov. 16, 18, 23, 30
Contributions to Philosophy (Excerpts. Page Proofs))

Dec. 2
Conclusion

Dec. 3
Second Paper Due

Required Texts

Martin Heidegger Basic Questions of Philosophy, Indiana University Press.

Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art", "The Thing", "Language." and "Building Dwelling Thinking" in Poetry, Language, Thought , Harper and Row

Martin Heidegger "The Way Back into the Ground of Metaphysics" (Reader)

Martin Heidegger, "The Age of the World Picture" and "The Question Concerning Technology" in The Question Concerning Technology and other Essays, Harper & Row

Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (Reader)

Albert Borgmann, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, (Chs. 9 and 23), Chicago University Press.

Hubert Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Division I of Being and Time, MIT, Press.

Requirements

Approximately 50 pages of difficult reading per week. Two eight-page papers and attendance at weekly discussion sections.

Prerequisites

The best preparation for the course would be Philosophy l87 (Being and Time) and/or courses on Hegel, Nietzsche, or Foucault, but later Heidegger’s writings represent such a radical break with early Heidegger and with traditional philosophy that any philosophy course may help somewhat and none will help all that much.