COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EXISTANTIALISM

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 5048 EXISTANTIALISM ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Philosophy

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN BAL

Offered to

Philosophy

Course Objective

Existentialist philosophy is investigated by reading Heidegger's and Sartre's masterpieces.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The participants gain the knowledge of the basic concepts of existentialist philosophy.
2   The participants are able to evaluate the ideas developed by Heidegger and Sartre related to existentialism.
3   The participants are able to make comparisons between the ideas of thinkers such as Heidegger and Sartre.
4   The participants could ground these ideas on a solid basis.
5   The participants equip themselves with an intellectual capital that renders them critic in the field of existentialist philosophy.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The roots of existentialist philosophy: Augustin, Pascal, Spinoza, Kierkegaard
2 Nietzsche and the philosophy of life
3 Heidegger and destruction of metaphysics
4 Dasein, question of Being ve temporality
5 Care (Sorge)
6 From philosophy to thinking
7 Onto-teological construction of metaphysics and a new beginning
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Phenomenological ontology and Sartre
10 Commitment of a thinker
11 The problem of "nothingness"
12 Human action and freedom
13 Humanist existentialism
14 Nausea
15 General assessment
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Camus, Albert (2005) The Myth of Sisyphus, tr. by Justin O'Brien, London: Penguin Books.
Jameson, Fredric (1991) Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Durham: Duke University Press.
Heidegger, Martin (1985) Being and Time, tr. by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Heidegger, Martin (2002) Identity and Difference, tr. and with int. By Joan Stambaugh, New York: Harper&Row.
"Hümanizm Üzerine Bir Mektup", Heidegger, Martin. Bkz. ss. 37-95. Hümanizmin Özü, Derleyen: Ahmet Aydoğan, Istanbul: Iz Yayıncılık.
"Metafiziğin Onto-teo-lojik Inşası", Heidegger, Martin. Bkz. Heidegger ve Teoloji, Der. Ahmet Demirhan, Istanbul: Insan Yayınları.
Kierkegaard, Soren (1983) Fear and Trembling & Repetition, ed. and tr. by Howard

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Discussion
3. Presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3 will be evaluated by his/her presentation
LO 4-5 will be evaluated by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The presentations are expected to be made at the appointed time.
The papers are submitted at a set time.
Attendance to the lectures is required.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0232 301 94 11
metin.bal@deu.edu.tr
http://www.metinbal.net

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 7 3 21
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 30 30
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.15555555
LO.25455
LO.3545
LO.44545
LO.555554

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