Topics in Continental Phil

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Rome, Italy (JCU): The course surveys major figures and movements in twentieth-century continental European philosophy in contrast to the Anglo-Saxon analytic tradition, from phenomenology to poststructuralism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. It is organized into four sections that examine phenomenology and critiques of metaphysics and cognition (Heidegger, Arendt), critiques of science and history (Popper, Benjamin, Virno), and theories of language as productive of knowledge, including semiology, technology, and language games (Baudrillard, McLuhan, Wittgenstein). The final section explores systems theory and autopoiesis in sociological and ecological accounts of cognition (Luhmann, Latour, Varela).