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Dec 26, 2024
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Goucher College 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 224 - Existentialism: Philosophy and Theater (3 Cr.) (THE 202 ) (GEN. ED. #4)
Through the study of existentialist philosophers and playwrights, this course explores the relation of philosophy and theater as the two human activities that enact the self-conscious reflection of the world. Using readings from philosophers Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Marcel, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Duras, and dramatists Artaud, Pirandello, Brecht, and Beckett, students bring theater and philosophy together in their shared standpoint on the clearing/stage of a conscious place in which they can see the world and see themselves reflected in the world. By discovering how philosophy and theater both “enact reality,” students will also discuss how both meaning in one’s life and personal identity are created, how political identities are created, how political communities and social relations are constituted, and how humans “enact” being. Prerequisite: either sophomore standing, a 100-level philosophy course, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2010-11 and alternate years. Rose.
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