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PHIL 609 - Recent French Phil

(3 units)
Figures such as Sarte, Beauvoir, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Kristeva or movements such as phenomenology, existentialism, postmodernism, feminism. May be repeated when course content differs.

Maximum units a student may earn: 12

Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. state a thesis about a key text in recent French philosophy, explain the thesis, and provide evidence, textual and philosophical, in its defense.
2. explain and interpret some central ideas associated with one or more philosophers in the recent French philosophical tradition.
3. distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in a philosophical text in the recent French philosophical tradition and/or a secondary source that comments critically on it.
4. show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in a text in the tradition of recent French philosophy.


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