Course Lecture Titles

1. The Axial Model
2. Kants Hopeful Program
3. The Kantian Legacy
4. Kant and the Romantic Reaction
5. Hegel on the Human Spirit
6. Hegel on State and Society
7. Hegel on Selfhood and Human Identity
8. Schopenhauers Pessimism
9. Schopenhauers Remedies
10. Alienation in Marx
11. Marxs Utopian Hope
12. Kierkegaards Crises
13. Kierkegaards Passion
14. Why God DiedNietzsches Claim
15. Nietzsches Dream
16. Freuds Nightmare
17. Freud on Our Origins
18. Psychoanalytic Visions in and after Freud
19. Heidegger on the Meaning of Meaning
20. Heidegger on Technologys Threat
21. Heideggers Politics and Legacy
22. The Human SituationSartre and Camus
23. Power and ReasonFoucault and Habermas
24. Todays Provocative LandscapeThresholding