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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Existentialism: Choice, Sex, and Will

Course Information

Subject: Gender Studies (GS), History (HIST)
Number: 328
Language of Instruction: English

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 45 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits
5 Weeks Session: 45 contact hours, 3 semester credits

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Summary

Discusses topics such as choice and responsibility, sexual attitudes and gender perceptions, reason and will. Questions humanity's fundamental search for meaning, the "why" of existence, and examines Nietzsche's statement that anyone "who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." Readings include Simone de Beauvoir, Camus, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Jaspers, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre.

Full Description

Discusses topics such as choice and responsibility, sexual attitudes and gender perceptions, reason and will. Questions humanity's fundamental search for meaning, the "why" of existence, and examines Nietzsche's statement that anyone "who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." Readings include Simone de Beauvoir, Camus, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Jaspers, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre.