Monday 2/14: Meaning the Aftermath of War - Existential Responses

You will find the Zoom link to class here. The passcode is 047821.

Zoom recording of this class is here.

Read and view before class - please work through each of these in order presented here

• Read: Nigel Warburton, The Anguish of Freedom

• Watch: BBC Ideas - What is Existentialism?

• Read: Sartre, Fear vs. Anguish

• Read: Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Prepare or organize before class:

• Identify what seems to be an existential experience you have had in your own life

• Reflect on your own familiarity with the difference between fear and anguish

• How can we connect the experiences of soldiers returning to civilian life with the challenges of suicide and the absurd?