This course will introduce students to major works in German philosophy from Nietzsche to Habermas from the perspective of literary and critical theory. The focus of the course will be the way in which these texts formulate a response to modernity by providing critiques of notions of progress, modernization, and rationalization. In addition, the course will compare the way these texts imagine the role of culture and tradition in modern society.
Readings:
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Carl Schmitt, Constitutional Theory
Walter Benjamin, On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of the European Sciences
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
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