**This class is an independent study course designed for philosophy majors who need a course in continental philosophy to graduate this May. Anyone else who signs up for the course should recognize that it is a reading intensive course in which every student will be expected to have read the assigned material thoroughly prior to each class meeting and to be able to engage in the kind of informed discussion characteristic of a one-on-one tutorial. Grades will be based on two-page typed summaries of readings that will be submitted at least once a week.Nineteenth-Century Philosophy focuses on the major continental thinkers after Kant, including Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
Texts: Philosophical Classics: Nineteenth-Century
Philosophy (1997), ed. Forrest Baird & Walter Kaufmann [B]
A History of Philosophy, vol. 7: Fichte to Nietzsche
by Frederick Copleston [C]
Texts must be obtained by each student independently (e.g., through a local bookstore or Amazon.com). Books have not been ordered by the professor. Readings for the first two weeks will be provided at the first class.
| Jan. 19 | Introduction | |
| Jan 24 | Kantian background | C ch. 1 |
| Jan. 26 | Fichte: Consciousness | C ch. 2 |
| Jan. 31 | Fichte: Humanity | C ch. 3; B 23-31 |
| Feb 2 | Fichte: Divinity | C ch. 4; B 14-23 |
| Feb. 7 | Schelling: Nature/art | C ch. 5-6 |
| Feb. 9 | Schelling: Mythology | C ch. 7 |
| Feb. 14 | Hegel: Consciousness | B 32-35; C ch. 9 |
| Feb. 16 | Hegel: Phenomenology | B 32-51 |
| Feb. 21 | Hegel: Logic | C ch. 10, sec. 1-6 |
| Feb. 23 | Hegel: Reason | B 51-70, 92-96 |
| Feb. 28 | Hegel: The Individual | C ch. 10, sec.7–ch. 11, sec. 5 |
| Mar 1 | Hegel: The State | B 70-92 |
| Mar. 6 | Schopenhauer: Voluntarism | C ch. 13–ch 14, sec. 5; B 97-99 |
| Mar. 8 | Walk: No class | |
| Mar. 20 | Schopenhauer: Negating Will | B 100-113 |
| Mar. 27 | Marx: Dialectical materialism | C ch. 16 |
| Mar. 29 | Marx: Alienation | B 298-317 |
| Apr. 3 | Marx: Dialectics | B 318-30 |
| Apr. 5 | Marx: Ideology & Critique | B 340-56 |
| Apr. 10 | Kierkegaard: Existence | C ch. 17 |
| Apr. 12 | Kierkegaard: Fear & Trembling | B 261-72 |
| Apr. 17 | Kierkegaard: Subjective Truth | B 281-97 |
| Apr. 19 | Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy | B 443-57 |
| Apr. 24 | Nietzsche: Overview | C ch. 21-22 |
| Apr. 26 | Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morality | B 457-74 |
| May 1 | Nietzsche: Zarathustra | B 474-85 |
| May 10 (Wednesday) | Term paper? |
Class Meeting Time/Place: MW 12:40-1:30, Bolton 208
Office: Bolton 302 B
Office hours: Monday 1:45-5:30, Wednesday 1:45-3:45
Phone: 845-5619 (office), 846-4649 (home)
Email: sdaniel@unix.tamu.edu