COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHICAL MOVEMENTS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBE 6095 TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHICAL MOVEMENTS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN BAL

Offered to

Statistics (English)
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Course Objective

Philosophical movements that occured throughout 20th century and in the beginning of 21th century will be investigated. The philosophical foundations and philosophical network of 20th century will be explored. The distinctions between philosophical theories that belong to 20th century and beginning of 21th century will be distinguished. A philosophical discussion about contemporary philosophical movements will be held.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The participants know the philosophical foundations and philosophical network of 20th century
2   The participants know distinctions between philosophical theories that belong to 20th century and beginning of 21th century.
3   The participants make philosophical analysis about the contemporary philosophical movements and categorize the ideas discussed accordingly.
4   Th eparticipants make philosophical comparisions between the philosophical movements
5   The participants comprehend and develop philosophical relations between different kind of ideas.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Legacy of Hegel's and Marx' Philosophy in the Context of Frankfurt School
2 Formalism, Theory of Scientific Method and Literary Criticism
3 Nietzsche and Nihilism
4 Philosophy As a Rigorous Science: Phenomenology
5 Psychoanalysis, Freud, Lacan and Unconscious
6 Foucault ve Poststructuralism
7 Mid-termexam
8 Analytical Philosophy and Wittgenstein'sTractatus
9 Existentialism, Heidegger and Fundamentalism
10 Absurd Philosophy in Albert Camus, Franz Kafka and Jean-Paul
11 Deconstruction and Derrida
12 Baudrillard's "Simulacra" and "Simulation"
13 Postmodernism, StereoscopicThinking and Fredric Jameson's Depth Models.
14 Postmodernism, StereoscopicThinking and Fredric Jameson's Depth Models.

Recomended or Required Reading

Nietzsche, Friedrich, (1967), TheWilltoPower, Ing. Çev: WalterKaufmann ve R. J. Hollingdate, New York: Random House.
Nietzsche, Friedrich, (2002), Güç Istenci, Bütün Değerleri Değiştiriş Denemesi, Çev: Sedat Umran, Istanbul: Birey Yayıncılık.
Jay, Martin (2005)Diyalektik Imgelem, Frankfurt Okulu ve Toplumsal Araştırmalar Enstitüsünün Tarihi. çev. Ünsal Oskay, Istanbul: Belge Yayınları.
Benjamin, Walter (2004) Pasajlar, Çev. Ahmet Cemal, Istanbul: YKY.
Piaget, Jean (2008) Yapısalcılık, Çev. Ayşe Şirin Okyayuz Yener, Doruk Yay.
Foucault, Michel (1999) Yapısalcılık ve Post-Yapısalcılık, Çev. Ali Utku / Ümit Umaç, Istanbul: Birey Yay.
Todorov, Tzvetan (2010) (der.)Yazın Kuramı, Rus Biçimcilerinin Metinleri, Roman Jakobson'unÖnsözüyle, Çev. Mehmet Rifat - Sema Rifat, Istanbul: YKY.
"Bilimsel Yöntemin Kuramı", Eyhenbaum
"Bir Şiir Sanatı Bilimine Doğru", Jakobson
"Yazınsal Evrim Üzerine", Tinyanov

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

There will be a mid -term and final exam.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

metin.bal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Reading 15 2 30
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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