technē Conflux - Authenticity and Bad Faith: Phenomenology and Existentialism as Critical Approaches
30th May 2019 1:00pm-4:00pm
This workshop is offered as part of a techn
Location: Senate House, room 103, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU
This workshop will introduce students to phenomenology as a method of philosophy, and the relation it bears to existentialism via Heidegger and Sartre. From this, the workshop shall seek to explore the relevance existentialism and phenomenological ontology has to socio-economic and political critique, specifically in the sense of developing ‘authentic’ selves and ‘authentic’ research in the context of marketised academia.
Facilitator: Dr Christian Gilliam (University of Surrey)
Suggested readings:
- Jean-Paul Sartre (2004) The Transcendence of the Ego: a sketch for a phenomenological description, trans. Andrew Brown. London, Routledge Classics, available at: https://www.fagi.uni-leipzig.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Sartre-Jean-Paul-Transcendence-of-the-Ego-Routledge-2004.pdf
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1963) Search for a Method, trans. Hazel E. Barnes. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, available at http://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/Sartre-Search.pdf
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1961) Preface to Franz Fanon’s ‘Wretch of the Earth’, available here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/1961/preface.htm
- Martin Heidegger (1977) The Question Concerning Technology, trans. William Lovitt. New York, Garland Publishing, available at: https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf
- Martin Heidegger (1962) ‘Introduction’, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 21-63, available here: http://pdf-objects.com/files/Heidegger-Martin-Being-and-Time-trans.-Macquarrie-Robinson-Blackwell-1962.pdf
- Martin Heidegger (n.d.) Letter on ‘Humanism’, trans. Frank A. Capuzza, available at: http://pacificinstitute.org/pdf/Letter_on_%20Humanism.pdf