Contemporary Philosophy Syllabus (original) (raw)

Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Language

This is an instructor’s manual with student exercises for the Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Language course. It is intended to assist the instructor in teaching the subject to students for whom English is a second language. This manual begins with a chapter that describes the types of learning activities during this course. Next are topic chapters, each of which has four sections: a synopsis of the lecture on the topic; a lecture lesson worksheet with tasks; a seminar lesson worksheet with tasks; and assignments for essay writing. At the end of the manual is a list of key definitions for the course, a list of exam questions, and answer keys for seminar tasks and lecture worksheets.

Heidegger's Jews: Inclusion/Exclusion and Heidegger's Anti- Semitism

Heidegger’s thinking once seemed to bear on everything and every philosopher, from the Pre-Socratics, such as Anaximander and Parmenides as well as Heraclitus, to Plato himself, to Aristotle as well as Plotinus and Augustine, Duns Scotus and Aquinas and all the modern names like Descartes and Leibniz. Kant, too, as well as Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Marx, Dilthey and arguably above all: Nietzsche. And Heidegger read Husserl. But with the publication of the Black Notebooks, everything turns around. If Heidegger could remind us as he does precisely in his reflections on the very idea of the Nachlaß as such, reflections constituting a central focus beginning with the first volume of the Black Notebooks arguing that posthumous works work – this is their Wirkungsgeschichte – to invert the order of time, the effect effected in what I call the “black night” of the Black Notebooks, has to be a Kehre to beat them all. Emmanuel Faye’s former student, Sidonie Kellerer, has even suggested that the turn itself was invented as a cover for a more insidious concern: anti-Semitism at the core. Thus, it seems Heidegger was preoccupied less with the Seinsfrage than the Judenfrage, particularly in terms of what Peter Trawny characterizes as Heidegger’s now ineliminable seinsgeschichtliche Antisemitismus, an obsession with Weltjudentum, wherein Heidegger is also revealed as having been fatally one-sided in his naming of names in the history of philosophy, especially his contemporaries and students. NB: This is an author's corrigendum addressing print artifacts or typographer's errors. For the printed and official version, but also for the contributions in the issue, please see the publisher's official website: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rbsp20/47/2