PHIL 4000: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Fall 2013
Imholte 217
M W 5:30-7:10

Tentative Class Schedule:

1. Kant: "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View"

2. Schiller: On the Aesthetic Education of Man (selections)

3. Hegel: Lectures on Aesthetics (selections) and A.C. Bradley: "Hegel's Theory of Tragedy"

4. Hegel: Reason in History

5. Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit: "Introduction" and "Lordship and Bondage"

6. Feuerbach: Essence of Christianity, Chapters 1-9

7. Feuerbach: Essence of Christianity, Chapters 10-18

8. Marx: "Theses on Feuerbach" and Communist Manifesto

9. Marx: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844: "Alienated Labor" and "Critique of Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy in General"

10. Marx: German Ideology: "Ideology in General, German in Particular" and "Preface" to Critique of Political Economy

11. Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1, Book One

12. Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1, Book Two

13. Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1, Book Three

14. Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1, Book Four

15. Nietzsche: "Schopenhauer as Educator"

16. Nietzsche: “The Greek State” and “Homer’s Contest”

17. Nietzsche: "What I Owe to the Ancients" and Birth of Tragedy (1-18)

18. Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals, First Essay

19. Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals, Second Essay

20. Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals, Third Essay

21. Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ

22. Freud: On Dreams

23. Freud: Future of an Illusion

24. Freud: Civilization and its Discontents (first half)

25. Freud: Civilization and its Discontents (second half)