Course: Continental Philosophy

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Course title Continental Philosophy
Course code KFI/KF
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Sirovátka Jakub, doc. Dr. phil.
Course content
1. E. Husserl (foundation of phenomenology) 2. M. Heidegger (the question of being) 3. E. Levinas (the Other) 4. J.-P. Sartre and M. Merleau-Ponty (corporeity and the world) 5. H.-G. Gadamer and P. Ricouer (hermeneutics) 6. L. Wittgenstein (philosophy of speech, ethics, religion) 7. Ch. Taylor and H. Joas (philosophy of religion, human rights) The texts at the seminar are chosen to correspond to the topic of the lectures.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
To acquaint students with the basic currents and topics of the so-called continental European philosophy, which differs from the Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Seminar work

Recommended literature
  • Grondin, Jean; Horyna, Břetislav,; Kouba, Pavel. Úvod do hermeneutiky. 1. vyd. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 1997. ISBN 80-86005-43-7.
  • Holzhey, Helmut; Röd, Wolfgang. Filosofie 19. a 20. stol. II., Novokantovství, idealismus, realismus a fenomenologie. Vyd. 1. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2006. ISBN 80-7298-178-1.
  • Joas, Hans. Glaube als Option : Zukunftsmöglichkeiten des Christentums. 2. Aufl. Freiburg im Breisgau ; Basel ; Wien : Herder, 2013. ISBN 978-3-451-30537-5.
  • Petříček, Miroslav. Úvod do (současné) filosofie. 4. uprav. vyd. Praha : Herrmann a synové, 1997.
  • Taylor, Charles. Sekulární věk : dilemata moderní společnosti : vybrané kapitoly. Vyd. 1. Praha : Filosofia, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7007-393-3.
  • Thurnher, Rainer; Röd, Wolfgang,; Schmidinger, Heinrich,; Petříček, Miroslav. Filosofie 19. a 20. století. III, Filosofie života a filosofie existence. Vyd. 1. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7298-177-9.


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