PL 406 - Philosophies of the Other

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: PL 201 and one additional PL 200-level course. Recent philosophy confronts a range of Others-the Other that I hate, that I love, that I fight, that I worship, even the Other that I am to myself. This course traces these very different modes of Otherness: social, sexual, political, religious, and metaphysical. Readings from Hegel, Levinas, Freud, de Beauvoir, Sartre, Marx, Lacan, Zizek, and Weil. Same course as HN 406 .