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Course: Continental Philosophy of 20th century

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Course title	Continental Philosophy of 20th century
Course code	KFR/BKF20
Organizational form of instruction	Lecture + Seminar
Level of course	Bachelor
Year of study	not specified
Semester	Summer
Number of ECTS credits	7
Language of instruction	Czech
Status of course	Compulsory
Form of instruction	Face-to-face
Work placements	This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components	None

Lecturer(s)
Trnka Jakub, Mgr. Ph.D. Grygar Filip, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction to phenomenology and existentialism Lecture: 1. Introductory lecture: Science in the service of the industrial revolution; positivism, empiriocriticism, sceptical relativism, pragmatism, psychologism and scientism. 2. Husserl's Logical Investigations I and II. 3. Husserl's basic starting points and concepts in Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy I and II. 4. Husserl's conception of the Natürliche Welt in Ideas and the of Lebenswelt in the Crisis of European Sciences. 5. Hermeneutical tradition and Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology in Being and Time; definition of key terms. 6. Heidegger's phenomenology after the so-called Kehre and a few remarks on Hannah Arendt's philosophy. 7. Hans-Georg Gadamer´s and Paul Ricoeur's phenomenology and hermeneutics and motives of the Life-world in Eugene Fink. 8. Phenomenological grasp of bodily existence by Ludwig Landgrebe, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jan Patočka. 9. Introduction to existentialism. 9. Existentialist phenomenology in the work of Emanuel Levinas and so-called atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. 10. The so-called Christian existentialism in philosophy of Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel. 11. A few remarks on structuralism. 12. Some remarks on postmodernism and poststructuralism. Seminar: interpretation of selected passages from individual works of phenomenologists and existentialists.
Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book) Home preparation for classes - 24 hours per semester Participation in classes - 48 hours per semester Preparation for an exam - 60 hours per semester Preparation for a final test - 77 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
An Introduction to Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. The knowledge and competencies that students will gain during this course involve a proper understanding of the modern world, especially its scientific and technical character.
Prerequisites
unspecified
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Didactic test Active attendance (min. 80 %) Discussions on a given topic. Elaboration of a credit and exam test following the primary literature and the examined subjects.
Recommended literature
A. Camus. Cizinec. Praha, 2005. Bernet, R, Kern, I, Marbach, E. Úvod do myšlení Edmunda Husserla. Praha, 2004. E. Husserl. Ideje k čisté fenomenologii a fenomenologické filosofii I. Praha, 2004. E. Husserl. Krize evropských věd a transcendentální fenomenologie. Praha, 2000. E. Levinas. Totalita a nekonečno. Praha, 1997. F. Grygar. Ke kritice galileovské vědy v Husserlově ?Krizi evropských věd a transcendentální fenomenologii?. Červený Kostelec, 2005. G. Figal. Úvod do Heideggera. Praha, 2007. G. Marcel. K filosofii naděje. Praha, 1970. H.-G. Gadamer. Pravda a metoda I, Nárys filosofické hermeneutiky. Praha, 2010. Holzey, H. a Röd, W.. Filosofie 19. a 20. století II, Novokantovství, idealismus, realismus a fenomenologie. Praha, 2006. I. Blecha. Bytí a svět, Heidegger v kontextu. Olomouc, 2019. I. Blecha. Proměny fenomenologie ? Úvod do Husserlovy fenomenologie. Jihlava, 2007. J. Derrida. Texty k dekonstrukci. Bratislava, 1993. J. Grondin. Úvod do hermeneutiky. Praha, 2011. J. P. Sartre. Existencialismus je humanismus. Praha, 2004. K. Jaspers. Mezní situace. Praha, 2016. Kunzmann, P., Burkard, F.-P., a Wiedmann, F.. Encyklopedický atlas filosofie. Praha, 2001. M. Heidegger. Básnicky bydlí člověk. Praha, 1993. M. Heidegger. Bytí a čas. Praha, 2008. M. Petříček. Úvod do současné filosofie. Praha, 1997. Michalovič, P. a Minár, P. Úvod do štrukturalismu. Bratislava, 1997. Michalovič, P. a Zuska, V. Znaky, obrazy a stíny slov. Praha, 2009. Thurnher, R., Röd, W. a Schmidinger, H. Filosofie 19. a 20. století III, Filosofie života a filosofie existence. Praha, 2009. V. Černý. První a druhý sešit o existencialismu. Praha, 1992. V. Váňa. O lidském údělu z pohledu existencialismu. E-Logos: Electronic Jurnal for Philosophy. W. Janke. Filosofe existence. Praha, 1995.

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