Heidegger

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• debate and criticise ideas and arguments in an even-handed fashion.
• present ideas in writing, clearly and carefully.
• interpret, synthesise and criticise complex texts and positions.
• articulate and defend your own views regarding the issues the module concerns.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the central issues that the early Heidegger addresses
• how the issues you explore in this module relate to other areas of philosophy
• the concepts and arguments that he draws upon

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• take notes from talks and written materials.
• undertake independent work, including identifying and using appropriate resources.
• contribute to discussion in a critical but dispassionate way.
• express views clearly and concisely.
• work effectively to deadlines.

The content of this module may vary from year to year. Topics that may be covered include:

1) Being-in-the-world

2) The Questions of Being and of Understanding

3) The Present-at-hand and the Ready-to-hand

4) Scepticism and truth

5) Authenticity, das ‘Man’ and Anxiety

6) Conscience and time

7) Guilt, Being-a-whole and Being-towards-death

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Lectures
• In-class discussion
• One-on-one consultation with module co-ordinator

Learning activities include

• Attending classes
• Contribution to class discussion
• Doing independent research for and writing assessed work

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Books. H L Dreyfus (1991) Being-in-the-World . Cambridge: The MIT Press S Mulhall (1996) Heidegger and Being and Time . London: Routledge W Blattner (2006) Heidegger’s Being and Time . London: Continuum

Textbooks

M. Heidegger (trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson) (1962). Being and Time. Oxford: Blackwell.

Assessment strategy

For MA students taking this module, expectations will be significantly higher than those for year 3 undergraduate students attending the same lectures, and the assessment criteria will accordingly by stricter. In particular students will be required to demonstrate extremely high levels of detailed and accurate exposition, critical engagement, organisation and presentation, with scholarship that draws on appropriate primary literature.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External