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Continental Philosophy II

Key information

  • Module code:

    7AAN6032

  • Level:

    7

  • Semester:

      Spring

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

This module introduces three of the most influential thinkers within modern ‘continental’ philosophy: Jean-Paul Sartre (extracts from Being and Nothingness), Simone Weil (extracts from Waiting for God, and Gravity and Grace) and Michel Foucault (extracts from History of Sexuality and Discipline and Punish). All texts will be studied in translation. 

Assessment details

Summative assessment: one 3,500-word essay (100%).

Teaching pattern

One weekly one-hour lecture and one weekly one-hour seminar.

Department

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