TTEASK016U Søren Kierkegaard: Making of the Modern Self: Existential Thought
Focusing on thinkers from the Existentialist tradition such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Copenhagen’s own Søren Kierkegaard, this course traces the development of the conception of “selfhood.” Among other things, 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 that we understand ourselves via the stories we tell, and that 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
Winter and Summer Exam
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 2017 and Spring 2018
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Autumn 2017:
Thursdays 12:00-14:30
in room 7C.1.07
First day is in week 34
Spring 2018:
Thursdays 12:00-14:30
in room 7C.1.05
First day is in week 4 - Continuing and further education
- Price
Studerende under Åbent Universitet LINK
- Study board
- Study board of Theology
Contracting department
- Theology
Course Coordinators
- Kent Brian Soderquist (3-6f667744776f326f7932686f)
Lecturers
Kent Brian Söderquist