TTEASK016U Making of the Modern Self: Existential Thought
Focusing on thinkers from Continental Europe like Martin
Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean Paul Sartre, and Copenhagen’s own
Søren Kierkegaard, this course traces the development of the
conception of “selfhood” in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will
observe how ethical thinking has moved from the language of duty to
that of personal answerability, and how the search for meaningful
personal existence has increasingly become the responsibility of
the individual. The unique vocabulary of these authors appears not
only in works of philosophy, theology, and psychology, but also
literature and theatre, which illustrates the claim that we
understand ourselves via the stories we tell, and shows how these
narratives are necessarily told in dialogue with “the Other,” our
fellow human beings.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Total
- 28
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignment
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Exam period
Winther 2016/2017 Summer 2017
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- TTEASK016U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterBachelor
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn And Spring
- Schedule
- Note that the course will take place in both Autumn 2016 and Spring 2017
Autumn 2016:
Mondays and Thursdays 10-12 hrs.
Auditorium 9
First day: Thursday, August 25.
Spring 2017:
Thursdays 12-14.30
Room: 6B.0.22
First day: Thursday, January 19. - Continuing and further education
- Price
Studerende under Åbent Universitet LINK
- Study board
- Study board of Theology
Contracting department
- Theology
Course responsibles
- Kent Brian Soderquist (3-6d647542756d306d7730666d)
Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre
Lecturers
Kent Brian Söderquist, kbs@teol.ku.dk