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Apr 18, 2024
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Goucher College 2016-2017 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 )
The study of existentialist and hermeneutic theories of how we humans create and exact meaning. The thesis of this course is that philosophy and theater are the two human activities that enact and create meaning in the world and do so self-consciously, whereas other human activities attribute objective value to the truth they ascribe to the world. Using readings from Plato, Nietzsche, Artaud, Sartre, and Gadamer and the plays of Pirandello, Brecht, Duras, Genet, and Beckett, students enter the threshold of a conscious place in which we can see the world and see ourselves reflected in the world just as actors create a “world” on the stage. Philosophy and theater reveal we humans as the ones who “enact reality” and, in doing so, create history, personal and political identities, and the meaning of the world. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. Rose.
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