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Modules 2009-10

PHL4801 Kant and his Legacy

PHL4821 Hegel and his Legacy

PHL4827 Nietzsche and Heidegger

PHL4866 Recent French Philosophy (Badiou and Sartre)

PHL4890 Dissertation

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PHL4771 Post-Kantian Aesthetics

PHL 4912 Political Ontology (Deleuze, Negri, Agamben)

PHL 4921 Commodification and Subjectivation

PHL4801

Title

Kant and his Legacy

Level

PG

Credit Points

30

Start Term

Autumn

Subject

Philosophy

Module Leader

Christian Kerslake

Aims:
The aim of this module is to provide students with a grounding in Kant's philosophy as an historical and philosophical basis for the understanding of subsequent European philosophy through the detailed study of the Critique of Pure Reason and its competing interpretations.

Syllabus:

The module will focus on:

1. the structure of Kant's philosophical project (transcendental philosophy and critical metaphysics);

2. its central epistemological concepts and terminology (intuition, understanding, reason, imagination; analytic/synthetic; analytic/dialectic; antinomy, etc);

3. interpretive disputes and the history of reception.

Learning outcomes:

Knowledge: Familiarity with the distinctive features, issues and problems of Kantian philosophy: in particular, critique of metaphysics, transcendental argument, transcendental subjectivity, Kantian dialectic.

Skills: Development of the skills of close textual analysis; comprehension, reconstruction and interpretation of philosophical arguments; an ability to situate such arguments in the context of the history of philosophy and to discuss them critically.

Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy:

Lectures and seminars on Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, individual tutorials and private study. Emphasis is placed on seminar-based discussion. Assessment is one-third by a 1,500-word exercise and two-thirds by a 3,000-word essay.

Assessment Weighting:

Seen examination

0%

Unseen examination

0 %

Coursework (no examination)

100 %

Timetabled examination required

NO

Length of exam

N/A

Learning materials

Main Text:
Immanuel Kant , Critique of Pure Reason trans. Guyer and Wood (CUP) or Norman Kemp Smith (Macmillan) or Pluhar (Hackett)

Secondary Reading:
T. Adorno, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ( Stanford University Press, 2001)

H Allison, Kant's Transcendental Idealism (Yale University Press, 1983; 2004)

E Cassirer, Kant's Life and Thought (Yale University Press, 1981)

H Caygill, A Kant Dictionary (Blackwell, 1995)

G Deleuze, Kant's Critical Philosophy (Athlone Press, 1984)

S Gardner , Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge, 1999)

P Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (CUP, 1987)

P Guyer, Kant (Routledge, 2006)

M Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Indiana University Press,1990)

O Hoffe, Immanuel Kant (SUNY, 1994)

S Korner , Kant (Penguin,1955)