TTEASK016U Søren Kierkegaard: The Other and the Making of the Modern Self
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
- Course Preparation
- 272
- Exam Preparation
- 120
- Total
- 420
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmenta) active participation (minimum presence: 75% of all lectures); b) course literature: 1200-1500 pages; c) sub-mission of term paper (12-15 pages, based on 500-750 pages of approved literature). Evaluation is given by the teacher (Passed/Failed).
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Exam period
- Winther 2014/2015 Summer 2015
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- TTEASK016U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterBachelor choice,Full Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring And Autumn
- Schedule
- -
Note that the course will take place in both Autumn 2014 and Spring 2015
Autumn 2014:
Mondays and Thursdays 10-12 hrs.
Auditorium 9
First day: August 21, 2014
Spring 2015:
Mondays and Thursdays 10-12 hrs.
Auditorium 9
First day:
Thursdag, January 22, 2015 - Continuing and further education
- Price
- 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