Heidegger: Science, Poetry, Thought

3 credits · Undergraduate

In this course, we shall examine the complex relations that obtain in Heidegger's early and later work between science, poetry and thought. From his early identification of phenomenology as "philosophical science" to his mature insistence on the irreducibility of philosophy to science (and his new emphasis on the essential kinship of philosophy and poetry), we shall trace the contours of this powerful and inescapable path of thinking. RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to students in their second year and above. FORMATS: Seminar