Description: 1. Introduction. THE FOUNDERS. 2. Edmund Husserl, Introduction to The Idea of Phenomenology . 3. Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism." 4. Ferdinand de Saussure, Selections from Course in General Linguistics . EXISTENTIALISM. 5. Jean-Paul Sartre, Selection from "Existentialism." 6. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences." STRUCTURALISM. 7. Claude Lvi-Strauss, "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws." 8. Jacques Lacan, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud." CRITICAL THEORY: THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL. 9. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Concept of Enlightenment" from Dialectic of Enlightenment . V. HERMENEUTICS. 10. Hans-Georg Gadamer, "The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem." 11. Paul Ricoeur, Selection from "Phenomenology and Hermeneutics." VI. RECENT DIRECTIONS: POSTSTRUCTURALISM. 12. Jean-Franois Lyotard, "Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?" 13. Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." VII. RECENT DIRECTIONS: FEMINISM. 14. Luce Irigaray, "This Sex Which Is Not One." 15. Julia Kristeva, "From One Identity to an Other." VIII. RECENT DIRECTIONS: DECONSTRUCTION. 16. Jacques Derrida, "Differance." IX. RECENT DIRECTIONS: CRITICAL THEORY. 17. Jrgen Habermas, "Morality and Ethical Life: Does Hegel's Critique of Kant Apply to Discourse Ethics?" Suggestions for Further Reading.

Please Wait