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Key

(F): Familiarity, a couple of surveys or monographs are enough.

(G): Good understanding, some specialized secondary sources plus some important selections of the primary sources are needed.

(E): Excellent understanding, a great deal of primary sources with the aid of studies and commentaries.

General Background: some texts on the history of modern philosophy (1500 -1900 ca.)

To be chosen depending on your interests and level:

• A. W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics (easy)
• Benett - Learning from Six Philosophers
• Bowie - Schelling and Modern European Philosophy
• Dicker - Hume’s Metaphysics and Epistemology
• Baillie - Hume on Morality
• Bennett - Learning from Six Philosophers
• Bennett - Kant’s Analytic
• Bennett - Kant’s Dialectic
• Longuenesse - Kant and the Capacity to Judge
• Rachel - Elements of Moral Philosophy
• Beiser - Hegel
• Taylor - Hegel
• Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel
• Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860
• Beiser - German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801
• Wood - Fichte
• Sinclair - Bergson
• Safranski - Nietzsche
• Malpass (eds) - The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic

Classical Phenomenology Previous requirements: History of modern philosophy (F), British empiricism (G), Kant (G), History of formal logic (F).

Focus: Husserl

Also: Scheler.

Suggested readings to begin:

• ** Introductory / Context:
• ⬜ Bell - Husserl
• ⬜ Sokolowski - Introduction to Phenomenology
• ⬜ Zahavi - Phenomenology
• ⬜ Zahavi - Husserl’s Phenomenology
• ⬜ Spiegelberg - The Phenomenological movement (v1)
• ** Primary:
• ⬜ Welton (ed) - The Essential Husserl
• ⬜ Husserl - Logical Investigations
• ⬜ Husserl - Ideas
• ⬜ Husserl - The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
• ** Secondary
• ⬜ Zahavi - Husserl’s Legacy
• ⬜ Derrida - Edmund Husserl’s “Origin of Geometry”
• ⬜ Derrida - Speech and Phenomena
• ⬜ Smith & Smith (eds) - The Cambridge Companion to Husserl
• ⬜ Ingarden - On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism

Late Phenomenology Previous requirements: classical phenomenology (E), Hegel (F), ancient philosophy (F), christian/jewish theology (F).

Focus: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty.

Also: Stein, Levinas, Arendt.

Suggested readings to begin:

• ** Introductory / Context:
• ⬜ Gelven - Heidegger’s Being and Time
• ⬜ Moran - Introduction to Phenomenology
• ⬜ Spiegelberg - The Phenomenological movement (v2)
• ⬜ Carman - Merleau Ponty.
• ** Primary:
• ⬜ Heidegger - Being and Time,
• ⬜ Krell (ed) - Heidegger: Basic Writings,
• ⬜ Moran & Mooney (eds) - The Phenomenology Reader,
• ⬜ Baldwin (ed) - Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings
• ** Secondary:
• ⬜ Lafont - Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure,
• ⬜ Mitchell - The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger,
• ⬜ Derrida - Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
• ⬜ Gadamer - Heidegger’s Ways
• ⬜ Guignon - Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge
• ⬜ Calle-Gruber (ed) - Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference
• ⬜ Lacoue-Labarthes - Heidegger, art, and politics

Kyoto School Previous requirements: Kant (G), Hegel (G), late phenomenology (G), zen buddhist philosophy (E).

Focus: Nishida

Also: Nishitani, Tanabe.

Suggested readings to begin:

• ** Introductory / Context:
• ⬜ Heisig - Philosophers of Nothingness,
• ⬜ Yusa - Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō
• ⬜ Kasulis - Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History,
• ⬜ Wright - Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism
• ⬜ Carter - Nothingness Beyond God:
• ** Primary:
• ⬜ Franck & Staumbaugh (eds) - The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries,
• ⬜ Nishida - An Inquiry into the Good.
• ** Secondary
• ⬜ Nishitani - Nishida Kitarō
• ⬜ Wargo - The Logic of Nothingness

Existentialism Previous requirements: late phenomenology (F), Kierkegaard (F), feeling angst (E).

Focus: Sartre

Also: Camus, Beauvoir.

Suggested readings to begin:

• ** Introductory / Context:
• ⬜ Solomon - From Rationalism to Existentialism,
• ⬜ Hannay - Kierkegaard,
• ⬜ Sartre - Existentialism Is a Humanism.
• ** Primary:
• ⬜ Marino - Basic Writings of Existentialism,
• ⬜ Sartre - Being and Nothingness.
• ** Secondary:
• ⬜ Solomon - Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts
• ⬜ Crowell - The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism,
• ⬜ Taylor - The Ethics of Authenticity.
• ⬜ Flynn - Sartre: A Philosophical Biography
• ⬜ Stewart (ed) - The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty

Phenomenological Hermeneutics [under construction]

Previous requirements: late phenomenology (G), ancient philosophy (G)

Focus: Gadamer, Ricoeur.

Also: Jauss, Vattimo.

Suggested readings to begin:

Western Marxism/ Structural Marxism /Frankfurt School Previous requirements: classical sociology (F), psychoanalysis (F), Kant (G), Hegel (G), Aesthetics (F), Marx’s sociology/philosophy (E), Marx’s economic thought (F).

Focus:, Adorno, Althusser.

Also: Lukács, Kosch, Benjamin, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas (early), Offe.

Suggested readings to begin:

• ** Introductory / Context:
• ⬜ Wood - Karl Marx,
• ⬜ Kojeve - Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
• ⬜ Gordon - Philosophy of the Arts,
• ⬜ Lear - Freud
• ⬜ O’Connor - Adorno,
• ⬜ Held - Introduction to Critical Theory,
• ⬜ Ferris - The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin.
• ⬜ Ferreter - Louis Althusser
• ** Primary:
• ⬜ Lukacs - History and Class Consciousness,
• ⬜ Korsch - Marxism and Philosophy
• ⬜ Adorno & Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment,
• ⬜ Horkheimer - Critical Theory,
• ⬜ Adorno - Aesthetic Theory,
• ⬜ Adorno - Negative Dialectics,
• ⬜ Horkheimer - Eclipse of Reason,
• ⬜ Habermas - Science and Technology as Ideology
• ⬜ Jameson (ed) - Aesthetics and Politics.
• ⬜ Althusser & Balibar (eds) - Reading Capital
• ⬜ Althusser - Ideological States Apparatuses
• ** Secondary:
• ⬜ Honneth - Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory,
• ⬜ Lunn - Marxism and Modernism,
• ⬜ Kolakowski - Main Currents of Marxism
• ⬜ Castoriadis - On the Content of Socialism

Post-structuralism Previous requirements: late modern philosophy (G), structuralism (F), late phenomenology (G), Freud (G), Lacan (F/G), Western Marxism (F), ancient philosophy (F/G).

Focus: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze.

Also: Kristeva, Barthes, Butler, Nancy, Cixous, Irigaray.

Suggested readings to begin:

• ** Introductory / Context:
• ⬜ Chandler - Semiotics: The Basics,
• ⬜ Badcock - Structuralism and Social Theory
• ⬜ Hawkes - Structuralism and Semiotics
• ⬜ Homer - Lacan,
• ⬜ Jameson - The Prison-House of Language,
• ⬜ Colebrook - Gilles Deleuze,
• ⬜ Norris - Deconstruction,
• ⬜ Mills - Michel Foucault,
• ⬜ Shields - Ancient Philosophy,
• ⬜ Hadot - What is Ancient Philosophy?
• ** Primary:
• ⬜ Deleuze & Guattari -Capitalism and Schizophrenia,
• ⬜ Deleuze & Guattari - What is Philosophy?
• ⬜ Deleuze - Difference and Repetition.
• ⬜ Foucault - The Order of Things,
• ⬜ Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge,
• ⬜ Foucault - Power/Knowledge
• ⬜ Derrida - Of Grammatology,
• ⬜ Derrida - Writing and Difference
• ⬜ Derrida - Speech and Phenomena,
• ⬜ Derrida - Margins of Philosophy,
• ** Secondary:
• ⬜ Dreyfus & Rabinow - Michel Foucault,
• ⬜ Fraser - Unruly Practices,
• ⬜ Norris - Against Relativism,
• ⬜ Holland - Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus,
• ⬜ Patton (ed) - Deleuze: A Critical Reader
• ⬜ Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.

Contemporary Post-Marxism / Non-Marxism [under construction]

Previous requirements: post-structuralism (G), western marxism (F), late phenomenology (F), Hegel (G), Marx’s sociology/philosophy (G), Lacan (G).

Focus: Badiou, Mouffe & Laclau, Agamben, Ranciere, Laurelle.

Also: Zizek

Laclau & Moouffe - Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

New / Speculative Realism

[under construction]

Previous requirements: classical phenomenology (F), late phenomenology (G), post-structuralism (F), Deleuze (G), modern philosophy (F), German Idealism (G), Actor-Network-Theory (F), contemporary post-marxism (F), analytic metaphysics (F).

Focus: Meillasoux, Harman, Ferraris, Gabriel.

Also: DeLanda, Shaviro, Brassier, Grant, Thacker.

Suggested readings to begin:

• ** Introductory / Context: :
• ⬜ - Ferraris - Introduction to New Realism
• ⬜ - Sparrow - The End of Phenomenology: Metaphysics and the New Realism
• ⬜ - Harman - Speculative Realism
• ⬜ - Gabriel -Why the World Does Not Exist
• ⬜ - Latour - Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
• ** Primary:
• ⬜ Brassier -Nihil Unbound
• ⬜ Ferraris - Manifesto of New Realism
• ⬜ Harman - Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything
• ⬜ Harman - The Quadruple Object
• ⬜ Gabriel - Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology
• ⬜ Grant - Philosophies of Nature after Schelling
• ⬜ Meillasoux - After Finitude
• ** Secondary:
• ⬜ Bryant, Harman (eds) - The Speculative Turn
• ⬜ DeLanda & Harman - The Rise of Realism
• ⬜ Shaviro - The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism
• ⬜ Harman - Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making