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AP/PHIL 2120

Introduction to Existentialism

3.0 credits

Winter 2027

Topics

  • Freedom, choice and responsibility
  • Authenticity, identity and anxiety
  • Suffering, mortality and meaning
  • Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir
  • Feminist, Indigenous and Black existentialist perspectives

Readings

  • Required: Robert C. Solomon, editor, Existentialism, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005).
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