The Human Condition: Selected Twentieth Century Perspectives

Harvard FAS

This seminar will consider philosophical approaches and perspectives offered by five Western twentieth-century thinkers on ethics, religion, politics, and our (self) understanding as human beings. Works from Du Bois, Arendt, Fanon, Levinas, and Ricoeur will taken up to interrogate phenomenological, social, political and religious interpretations of the human condition, and our corresponding possibilities and responsibilities. Background in philosophy or theology is suggested but not required.…