Books to Buy
Students are not required to buy these texts, but they are responsible for having a copy for their sole use during the course. The Library provides a book exchange for students to pass on books they no longer need to other students, and is located in the library office. Please consider donating gently used textbooks. Identify any book to be dropped off for the swap so that they can be marked. Donation to the swap is not necessary to take books from it.
Recommended Texts
Recommended texts are those from which not enough reading assignments are drawn to warrant asking students to provide their own copies or those that instructors think will enhance a student’s appreciation of the subject matter of the course. Any reading assignments drawn from these texts will be available on reserve.
Electronic Reserve
Below are links to required or recommended texts available in an electronic format. For physical reserve items, please refer to the course syllabus.
- 1 Kant, Religion within Limits of Reason Alone, Preface and Sections 5-6
- 2 Freud, Future of an Illusion, chs. 5-10 (excerpts)
- 3 Ricoeur, Masters of Suspicion from Freud and Philosophy (Optional)
- 4 Hegel, Excerpts from Introduction to The Philosophy of History
- 5 Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity, Preface & pp. 1-12
- 6 Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
- 7 Marx, Critique of Hegels Philosophy of Right, pp. 758-65
- 8 Ratzinger on Notions of Truth, 57-69 (Optional)
- 9 Comte, Intro to Positive Philosophy, 1-14
- 10 Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, sect. 1-10
- 11 Nietzsche, The Madman
- 12 Nietzsche, On Truth and Falsity, pp. 87-99
- 13 Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, pp. 83-95
- 14 Intro to Phenomenology, pp. 8-21; (22-65 is optional)
- 15 Husserl, Philosoph as Rigorous Science (Optional)
- 16 Sokolowski, Husserl and the Principles of Phenomenology
- 17 Edith Stein, Dialogue between Husserl and Aquinas
- 18 Heidegger, Intro to Being and Time, sect. 1, 2 & 4
- 19 Wittgenstein, Tractatus and Investigations (excerpts TBD in class)
- 20 Encounter with Nothingness, pp. 23-41, Irrational Man
- 21 Kafka, In the Penal Colony
- 22 Camus, Myth of Sysiphus
- 23 Sartre, Humanism of Existentialism, pp. 31-41, 50-62
- 24 Marcel, Encounter with Evil
- 25 Mounier, Principles of a Personalist Civilization, 67-88
- 26 Foucault, What is Enlightenment, 32-50
- 27 Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance
- 28 MacIntyre, pp. 1-5, 117-20, 263, After Virtue