Western Philosophy in the Time of Crisis
1. Immanuel Kant - the Copernican Revolution and Transcendentalism: The significance of Kant`s transcendental philosophy through a study of selections from Critiques, mainly the Critique of Pure Reason and smaller texts such the Prolegomena and theGroundwork.
2. History and Immanence: The significance of history and the impossibility of speaking about the transcendent in the manner of religiously medieval philosophy, the emphasis on immanence through a selection of the works of Hegel (notably The Phenomenology of Spirit), Nietzsche (notable Geneology of Morals), the pragmatists (notably Pierce and James), Marx (German Ideology, Grundrisse, Capital), Dilthey (Hermenutics and the Study of History)
3. Emancipation and Praxis: Philosophy`s ambiguous response to the French Revolution in Kant (Toward Perpetual Peace, What is Enlightenment, Hegel (Elements of thePhilosophy of Right, Philosophy of Spirit), Marx (1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, Communist Manifesto), Mill (On Liberty), Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Germaine de Stael (Considerations on the Principle Elements of the French Revolution) and how it sets up all the subsequent debates in political philosophy right upto our ownday.
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