16.7 2nd and 3rd years To be advised. Normally 12.5 points of first-year Arts. First semester Up to three hours of lectures/seminars a week. Students completing this subject should be able to:

• have solid grasp of the development of critical theory traditions from the later 18th century to the early twentieth century
• understand the relationship between the various critical theories
• demonstrate this understanding through a critical engagement with the literature.

Critical examination of the major developments in the traditions of critical theorising from Kant's critical philosophy to Heidegger's Being and Time. The works of Hegel, Marx, Friedrich and August Schlegel, and Nietzsche will also be analysed. One literature review, one class paper and one essay together totalling 5,000 words. 16.7 2nd and 3rd years To be advised. First semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should be able to:

• have solid grasp of the development of critical theory traditions from the later 18th century to the early twentieth century
• understand the relationship between the various critical theories
• demonstrate this understanding through a critical engagement with the literature.

Critical examination of the major developments in the traditions of critical theorising from Kant's critical philosophy to Heidegger's Being and Time. The works of Hegel, Marx, Friedrich and August Schlegel, and Nietzsche will also be analysed. One literature review, one class paper and one essay together totalling 5,000 words. G. W. F Hegel, Hegel's Introduction to Aesthetics, Oxford UP M Heidegger, Basic Writings, Routledge I Kant, Political Writings, Cambridge UP K Marx, Early Writings, Penguin F Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ, Penguin F Schlegel, Lucinide and the Fragments, University of Minnesota Press