Schedule

Week 1: 1/26 – 1/30 Introduction
Kafka, The Hunger Artist

Week 2: 2/2 - 2/6 Kierkegaard
from Either/Or (pp 8-14)
Concept of Anxiety (pp 29-31)
Truth is Subjectivity (pp 17-23)

Week 3: 2/9 – 2/13 Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling, part 1
Fear and Trembling, part 2
Teleological Suspension of the Ethical (pp 15-17)

Week 4: 2/18 – 2/20 Dostoevsky
The Grand Insquisitor (pp 48-64)
Test 1 Due

Week 5: 2/23 – 2/27 Nietzsche
pp. 67-92

Week 6: 3/2 – 3/6 Nietzsche
pp 92-101

Week 7: 3/9 – 3/13 Kafka
Couriers (pg. 171)
The Trial

Week 8: 3/23 – 3/27 Kafka
The Trial

Week 9: 3/30 - Sartre
The Wall
Patterns of Bad Faith (pp. 224-238)
Test 2 Due

Week 10: 4/6 - 4/10 Sartre
(Wed, Fri: No Class)
Existentialism is a Humanism, (pp. 206-214)

Week 11: 4/13 – 4/17 Sartre
Nausea

Week 12: 4/21 - 4/24 Sartre, Merleau-Ponty
Nausea
Freedom (pp. 277-290)

Week 13: 4/27 – 5/1 Camus, Nagel
from the Myth of Sisyphus (pp. 187-189)
Nagel, The Absurd

Week 14: 5/4 – 5/8 Borges, Márquez
Nagel, The Absurd
Borges, Borges and I
Márquez, from Love in the Time of Cholera (pp. 359-364)
Test 3 Due

Week 15: 5/11 Conclusion
Final Paper Due