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Existentialism is our focus, starting with Descartes' Discourse on Method from 1637, then moving through Hegel, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and others. This series will conclude in early 2011. *** We are finishing Sartre and will move on to Merleau-Ponty.

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Date Author Book / Reading Selection Notes
 
Sep 26, 2010 Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception, Part I, Sec 5, P178 to end Part II Part I, Sec 5, P 178 "The Body in Its Sexual Being" through end Part II, P 425. 247 page total.
Oct 24, 2010 Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception (Part III, P 429 to end of book) Part III "Being-for-itself and Being-in-the-World" to end of book P 530
Nov 14, 2010 Ingmar Bergman The Seventh Seal (Movie) Existentialism Series
Dec 12, 2010 Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot "
Jan 23, 2011 Jerzy Kosinski The Painted Bird "
Feb 20, 2011 Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being "
Mar 20, 2011 Robert C. Solomon Love: Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor (First Half) "
Apr 17, 2011 Robert C. Solomon Love: Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor (Second Half) "
May 22, 2011 Hubert L. Dreyfus Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (First Half) "
Jun 19, 2011 Hubert L. Dreyfus Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (Second Half) "
Jul 24, 2011 Wrapup of Existentialism Series
 
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