FF:PH2105 French Phil. 19 -20th Cent. - Course Information
PH2105 French Philosophy in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Dagmar Pichová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová - Timetable
- Wed 11:40–13:15 A11 stara
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-PH)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH) (3)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-HS3)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-SS3)
- Course objectives
- Main objectives of the course can be summarized as follows:
to understand the specificity of contemporary French philosophy;
to learn about the most significant thinkers and streams of the 20th century French Philosophy;
to determine and characterize key themes;
to understand basic methods of research (e.g. structural method, deconstruction)
At the end of the course students will be able to interpret the philosophy of the period and understand French philosophical institutions. - Syllabus
- Introduction to 19th and 20th century French philosophy (specificity of French philosophy, philosophical institutions in France);
- Turn of the 19th and 20th century;
- Philosophy of intuition (Bergson);
- Christian personalism and existentialism (Marcel);
- Existentialism and phenomenology (Sartre, Merleau-Ponty);
- Marxism (Sartre);
- Structuralism (Foucault, Lévi-Strauss);
- Deconstruction (Derrida)
- Literature
- DESCOMBES, Vincent. Stejné a jiné :čtyřicetpět let francouzské filosofie (1933-1978). 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1995, 181 s. ISBN 80-85241-74-9. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, home reading
- Assessment methods
- Written exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2010, recent)
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