This will be a team-taught, intensive
course, in which we will study Hegel’s distinctive, phenomenological project through
three works. We will begin with the Phenomenology of Spirit itself, a rich
and colourful book that studies the ways in which experience is meaningful at
every level from immediate, sensory awareness, through interpersonal
relationships, to political and religious life.
From this book, we will focus first on the studies of cognition and
self-knowledge, in which Hegel studies the basic, dynamic parameters of our
experiential life. We will use this as a
foundation to study two other works by Hegel that fill out more fully some of
the ideas introduced in the later sections of the Phenomenology of Spirit. We
will study the section on “Objective Spirit” in Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences to investigate the
nature and forms of political life, and we will study his Aesthetics to investigate the nature of art and its role in human
life. These latter studies will be
supplemented with readings from the Phenomenology
of Spirit on politics and religion.
The course meets Mondays from 10:00-3:00
and Tuesdays from 4:00–9:00 for 4 weeks.
ICS 220603 W17
Drs. Shannon Hoff and John Russon
Mon/Tue: 10:00-15:00; 16:00-21:00 (Feb 27 - Mar 21)
(MA, PhD)
