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Course Outline (subject to change):
January 15: Introduction: The Questions
of Eco-Phenomenology: The Question Concerning the Human; The Question
Concerning Nature; The Question Concerning the Animal; The Question
Concerning Technology
January 22: Phenomenology: Husserl
and Heidegger: Intentionality, The Natural Attitude and Nature,
Being and Time and Being-In-The-World:
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“Preface,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. vii-xiv
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“Introduction,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 1-9
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“Heidegger’s Substantive
Introduction,” Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s
Being and Time, Division I, pp. 10-29
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“Heidegger’s Methodological
Introduction,” Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s
Being and Time, Division I, pp. 30-39
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“A Preliminary Sketch of Being-in-the-World,”
Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being
and Time, Division I, pp. 40-59
January 29: Heidegger and Being-In-The-World
(I):
- “Availableness and Occurrentness,”
Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being
and Time, Division I, pp. 60-87
- “Worldliness,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 88-107
- “Heidegger’s Critique of Recent
Versions of Cartesianism,” Being-In-The-World: A Commentary
on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I, pp. 108-127
- “Spatiality and Space,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 128-140
February 5: Heidegger and Being-In-The-World
(II):
- “The ‘Who’ of Everyday
Dasein,” Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s
Being and Time, Division I, pp. 141-162
- “The Three-Fold Structure of Being-In,”
Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being
and Time, Division I, pp. 163-167
- “Affectedness,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 168-183
February 12: Heidegger and Care:
- “Understanding,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 184-214
- “Telling and Sense,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 215-224
- “Falling,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 225-237
- “The Care-Structure,” Being-In-The-World:
A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I,
pp. 238-245
February 19: Continental Though and
the Question Concerning the Animal: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille,
Levinas:
- “Philosophical Implications of a Hermeneutics
of Everydayness,” Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on
Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I, pp. 246-281
- Peter Singer, “Preface,” Animal
Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought, pp.
xi-xiii
- “Editors’ Introduction: The
Animal Question in Continental Philosophy,” Animal Philosophy:
Essential Readings in Continental Thought, pp. xv-xxv
- Friedrich Nietzsche, “O My Animals,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 3-6
- Alphonse Lingis, “Nietzsche and Animals,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 7-14
- Martin Heidegger, “The Animal is Poor
in World,” Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental
Thought, p. 17
- Matthew Calarco, “Heidegger’s
Zoontology,” Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in
Continental Thought, pp. 18-30
- Georges Bataille, “Animality,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 33-36
- Jim Marsden, “Bataille and the Poetic
Fallacy of Animality,” Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings
in Continental Thought, pp. 37-44
- Emmanuel Levinas, “The Name of a Dog,
or Natural Rights,” Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings
in Continental Thought, pp. 47-50
- Michael E. Zimmerman, “Introduction,”
Contesting Earth Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity,
pp. 1-17
February 26: Animality and Deep
Ecology:
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Peter Atterton, “Ethical Cynicism,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 51-61
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Michel Foucault, “Animality and
Insanity,” Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in
Continental Thought, pp. 65-71
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Clare Palmer, “Madness and Animality
in Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 72-84
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Deep Ecology’s
Wider Identification with Nature,” Contesting Earth
Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, pp. 19-56
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Deep Ecology
and Counterculturalism,” Contesting Earth Future:
Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, pp. 57-90
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Deep Ecology,
Heidegger, and Postmodern Theory,” Contesting Earth
Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, pp. 91-149
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Social
Ecology and Its Critique of Deep Ecology,” Contesting
Earth Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, pp. 150-183
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Radical
Ecology, Transpersonal Psychology, and the Evolution of Consciousness,”
Contesting Earth Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity,
pp. 184-232
March 4: Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari,
and Animality:
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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari,
“Becoming Animal,” Animal Philosophy: Essential
Readings in Continental Thought, pp. 87-100
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James Urpeth, “Animal Becomings,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 101-110
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Robert Mugerauer, “Deleuze and
Guattari’s Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental
Philosophy,” Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental
Philosophy, pp. 180-202
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Jacques Derrida, “The Animal
That Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” Animal Philosophy:
Essential Readings in Continental Thought, pp. 113-128
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David Wood, “Talking with Cats,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 129-144
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Luc Ferry, “Neither Man nor Stone,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 147-156
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Verena Conley, “Manly Values:
Luc Ferry’s Ethical Philosophy,” Animal Philosophy:
Essential Readings in Continental Thought, pp. 157-163
March 11: Spring Break
March 18: Nature, the Environment,
and the Question Concerning Woman:
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Hélèn Cixous, “Birds,
Women, and Writing,” Animal Philosophy: Essential
Readings in Continental Thought, pp. 167-173
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Stephen David Rose, “The Writing
of the Birds, in My Language,” Animal Philosophy:
Essential Readings in Continental Thought, pp. 174-191
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Luce Irigaray. “Animal Compassion,”
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought,
pp. 195-201
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Ecofeminism’s
Critique of the Patriarchal Domination of Woman and Nature,”
Contesting Earth Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity,
pp. 233-275
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Ecofeminism
and Deep Ecology,” Contesting Earth Future: Radical
Ecology and Postmodernity, pp. 276-317
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Chaos
Theory, Ecological Sensibility, and Cyborgism,” Contesting
Earth Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, pp. 318-377
March 25: Eco-Phenomenology and
Continental Thought:
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Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine,
“Eco-Phenomenology: An Introduction,” Eco-Phenomenology:
Back To The Earth Itself, pp. ix-xxi
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Charles S. Brown, “The Real and
the Good: Phenomenology and the Possibility of an Axiological
Rationality,” Eco-Phenomenology: Back To The Earth
Itself, pp. 3-16
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Erazim Kohák, “An Understanding
Heart: Reason, Value, and Transcendental Phenomenology,”
Eco-Phenomenology: Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 19-29
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Lester Embree, “The Possibility
of a Constitutive Phenomenology of the Environment,” Eco-Phenomenology:
Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 37-48
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John Llewelyn, “Prolegomena to
Any Future Phenomenological Ecology,” Eco-Phenomenology:
Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 51-70
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “Heidegger’s
Phenomenology and Contemporary Environmentalism,” Eco-Phenomenology:
Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 73-96
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Monika Langer, “Nietzsche, Heidegger,
and Merleau-Ponty: Some of Their Contributions and Limitations
for ‘Environmentalism’,” Eco-Phenomenology:
Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 103-118
April 1: The Phenomenology of Nature:
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Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman,
“Introduction: The Nature of Environmental Philosophy,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 1-9
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John Hartley, “The Uncanny Goodness
of Being Edible to Bears,” Rethinking Nature: Essays
In Environmental Philosophy, pp. 13-27
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David Wood, “Trees and Truth
(or, Why We Are Really All Druids),” Rethinking Nature:
Essays In Environmental Philosophy, pp. 32-42
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Irene J. Klaver, “Boundary Projects
versus Border Patrol,” Rethinking Nature: Essays In
Environmental Philosophy, pp. 44-53
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Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, “Children
and the Ethics of Place,” Rethinking Nature: Essays
In Environmental Philosophy, pp. 55-72
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David Abram, “Reciprocity,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 77-92
April 8: Nature and the Philosophical
Tradition; Nature and Natural Science:
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Trish Glazebrook, “Eco-Logic:
An Erotic of Nature,” Rethinking Nature: Essays In
Environmental Philosophy, pp. 95-111
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Elaine P. Miller, “Vegetable
Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating
to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German Thought,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 114-131
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John Sallis, “The Elemental Earth,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 135-146
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Robert Frodeman, “Philosophy
in the Field,” Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental
Philosophy, pp. 149-163
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Robert Kirkman, “Beyond Doubt:
Environmental Philosophy and the Human Predicament,” Rethinking
Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy, pp. 165-178
April 15: Approaches to Nature;
On the Nature of Nature:
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “What Can
Continental Philosophy Contribute to Environmentalism”,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 207-224
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Diane Michelfelder, “Contemporary
Continental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics: A Difficult
Relationship?,” Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental
Philosophy, pp. 231-242
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Stephen David Ross, “Biodiversity,
Exuberance, and Abundance: Chershing the Body of the Earth,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 245-257
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Edward S. Casey, “Mapping the
Earth in Works of Art,” Rethinking Nature: Essays
In Environmental Philosophy, pp. 260-269
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Alphonso Lingis, “The Music of
Space,” Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental
Philosophy, pp. 273-288
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Kenneth Maly, “A Sand County
Almanac: Through Anthropogenic to Ecogenic Thinking,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 289-301
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Bruce Wilshire, with Ron Cooper, “Nature
and Nurture: A Non-disjunctive Approach,” Rethinking
Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy, pp. 302-312
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Daniel Cérézuelle, “Nature
and Freedom: An Introduction to the Enviromenyal Thought of
Bernard Charbonneau,” Rethinking Nature: Essays In
Environmental Philosophy, pp. 314-328
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Bruce V. Foltz, “Nature’s
Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Giveness,”
Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy,
pp. 330-340
April 22: Ethics, Man, and Animal
(I):
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Bruce V. Foltz, Inhabiting the Earth:
Heidegger, Environmental Ethics and the Metaphysics of Nature
Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal
April 29: Ethics, Man, and Animal
(II):
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Bruce V. Foltz, Inhabiting the Earth:
Heidegger, Environmental Ethics and the Metaphysics of Nature
Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal
May 6: Phenomenology and the Future
of Eco-Phenomenology:
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Don E. Marietta, Jr., “Back to
Earth with Reflection and Ecology,” Eco-Phenomenology:
Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 121-133
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Ted Toadvine, “The Primacy of
desire and Its Ecological Consequences,” Eco-Phenomenology:
Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 139-150
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Irene J. Klaver, “Phenomenology
on (the) Rocks,” Eco-Phenomenology: Back To The Earth
Itself, pp. 155-167
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Christian Diehm, “Natural Disasters,”
Eco-Phenomenology: Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 171-183
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Edward S. Casey, “Taking a Glance
at the Environment: Preliminary Thoughts in a promising Topic,”
Eco-Phenomenology: Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 187-206
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David Wood, “What is Eco-Phenomenology?,”
Eco-Phenomenology: Back To The Earth Itself, pp. 211-231
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