Schedule

• 1. Wed, Jan 20: We'll get to know each other and then look at some of the programmatic statements by Husserl and Heidegger about the non-empirical nature of phenomenology (which they also take to be coextensive with philosophy).

     • Husserl, "Philosophy as a Rigorous Science"

     • Heidegger, HCT, §§1–4

     • Heidegger, Basic Problems, §§1–5

  2. Wed, Jan 27: Husserl on eidetics

     • Husserl, Ideas I, §§1–26

  3. Wed, Feb 3: Husserl on the Phenomenological Reduction

     • Husserl, Ideas I, §§27–55

  4. Wed, Feb 10: Heidegger's restatement of Husserl's method

     • Husserl, Ideas I, §§87–91

     • Heidegger, HCT, §§5, 8, & 9

  5. Wed, Feb 17: Heidegger's critique of Husserl's method (his argument that the Phenomenological Reduction is impossible)

     • Heidegger, HCT, §§10–13, but skip §13(b)–(e)

  6. Wed, Feb 24: Internalism, externalism, the ready-to-hand and the Reduction

• • HCT, §§18–20

  • Secondary literature TBD

• 1. Wed, Mar 2: What can phenomenology be if we accept Heidegger's critique of Husserl?

     • HCT, §§14–17

     • Husserl, Logical Investigations, TBD

     • Secondary literature TBD

  2. Wed, Mar 16: Merleau-Ponty's Critique of the Tradition

     • PP, Preface, Introduction, chs. I, III, IV (pp. lxx–lxxxv, 33–20, 28–65)

  3. Wed, Mar 23: Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological practice

  4. Wed, Mar 30:

  5. Wed, Apr 6:

  6. Wed, Apr 13:

  7. Wed, Apr 20: no class. I'm traveling (professionally; not going to Aruba, alas).

  8. Wed, Apr 27:

HCT = Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time

PP = Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception