PHIL 316 looks at some of the more significant or formative ideas in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy. Areas of emphasis change from year to year, but at various times will include: existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, structuralism, deconstructionism, the new historicism, post-modern theory. Authors studied will include: Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre, Lacan, Levinas, Lukacs, Adorno, Marcuse, Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida, Baudrillard and Lyotard.
Corequisite: Third year standing in the B.A. program.