Readings and Films:

  • Fear and Trembling
  • The Sickness Unto Death
  • Brothers Karamazov
  • Twilight of the Idols
  • The Gay Science
  • The Antichrist
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • The Third Man
  • Breathless

Lectures:

  • 1 Introduction: What is Existentialism?
  • 2 'Fear and Trembling' - Preamble from Heart I
  • 3 'Fear and Trembling' - Preamble from Heart II
  • 4 'Fear and Trembling' - Preamble from Heart III
  • 5 Discussion of Film 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'
  • 6 'Fear and Trembling' - Problema I
  • 7 Phil 7 Spring 2006 UC Berkeley Lecture 09 Discussion of Film The Third Man- Rough audio quality...
  • 8 'Fear and Trembling' - Problema II
  • 9 'Sickness Unto Death' (xeroxed excerpts) I
  • 10 'Sickness Unto Death' (xeroxed excerpts) II
  • 11 'Brothers Karamazov', Part I
  • 12 'Brothers Karamazov', Part I con't
  • 13 'Brothers Karamazov', Part II
  • 14 'Brothers Karamazov', Part II con't
  • 15 'Brothers Karamazov', Part II con't
  • 16 'Brothers Karamazov', Part III
  • 17 'Brothers Karamazov', Part III con't
  • 18 'Brothers Karamazov', Part IV
  • 19 'Brothers Karamazov', Part IV con't
  • 20 'Brothers Karamazov', Conclusion
  • 21 'Brothers Karamazov', Conclusion
  • 22 'Twilight of the Idols' (excerpts)
  • 23 'The Gay Science' (excerpts)
  • 24 Discussion of Film 'Breathless'
  • 25 'The Gay Science' (excerpts)
  • 26 'The Anti-Christ' (excerpts con't)
  • 27 Conclusion

Movies with Kierkegaardian themes:

  • “M” – 1931, directed by Fritz Lang.
  • “Ordet” (The Word) - 1955 Danish film, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
  • “Bigger than Life” – 1956, directed by Nicholas Ray.
  • “A Man and a Woman” (Un homme et une femme) - 1966 directed by Claude Lelouch.
  • “The Story of Adele H.” (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) - 1975 directed by François Truffaut.
  • “The Shining” - 1980 directed by Stanley Kubrick
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