This is the Moodle page for the Philosophy module 1PHP311 Phenomenology and Existentialism.
This course is designed to introduce you to a number of key themes and concepts in existentialism and phenomenology, including consciousness, phenomenology, being (being-in-time, being-in-the-world, being-amongst-others”), bad faith, radical freedom and responsibility. We begin with the origins of existentialism and phenomenology in the work of Soren Kierkegaard and W.E.B. Du Bois. We will then follow the ongoing conversation between existentialist theory and historical developments, as existential thought develops in response to antisemitism and colonial racism in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, and Lewis Gordon.