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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Philosophy

161-106 Freedom and Constraint: Existentialism and Feminism

Credit Points:

12.5 1st year

Coordinator:

Dr Marion Tapper

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Three hours a week

Subject Description:

The subject will be concerned with the tension between the freedom implied by consciousness and the constraints imposed by culture and society. In the context of this tension it will investigate the nature of our responsibility for our lives. On completion of the subject students should be able to recognise the distinctive nature of philosophical problems and their significance for other areas of thought, know how to go about working through such problems, and be in a position to engage with more philosophical material and to apply their philosophical skills in other disciplines.

Assessment:

One 2000-word essay during the semester (50 %) and a 2-hour end-of-semester examination (50 %).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Jean-Paul Sartre B, Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel D. Barnes London, Methuen, 1969.
  • Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, trans. H. M. Parshley New York, Knopf, 1953.
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