Class 17: Husserl’s Children, Searching for the Other
“The Other wrenches me from my hypostatise, from the here, at the heart of being or the center of the world where, privileged, and in this sense primordial, I posit myself.”—Emmanuel Levinas, “Philoso...
7 Helmi 202447min
Class 16: The Second Sex
“We conceive her as hesitating between the role of object, of Other that is proposed to her and her claim for freedom.”—Simone de Beauvoir. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietz...
7 Helmi 202450min
Class 15: Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Nature of Evil
“. . .totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. In this sense it eliminates the distance between the rulers and the ruled. . .” –Hannah Arendt, Ori...
7 Helmi 202450min
Class 14: The Frankfurt School
“Enlightenment is totalitarian.”—Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduc...
7 Helmi 202452min
Class 13: French Existentialism
“Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself.”—Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism.” HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed...
7 Helmi 202451min
Class 12: Heideggerean Existentialism
“Dasein is an entity which does not just occur amongst other entities. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that, in its very being, that being is an issue for it.”—Martin Heidegger, Being...
7 Helmi 202449min
Class 11: Phenomenology
“To the things themselves!”—Edmund Husserl. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the dominant trends in modern European...
7 Helmi 202450min
Class 10: Modernism and the Avant-Garde
“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”—Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual Hi...
7 Helmi 202450min
