| Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1course guidebook (iv, 100 pages, illustrations ; 19 cm) |
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SuperStar teachers.
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Great courses (DVD)
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| Note |
Videodisc release of a 1999 video series. |
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24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture. |
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In two containers (25 x 17 cm.). |
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"Course number 437"--Disc label. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: What is existentialism? -- Albert Camus, The stranger, part I -- Camus, The stranger, part II -- Camus, The myth of Sisyphus -- Camus, The plague and The fall -- Camus, The fall, part II -- Disc 2: Søren Kierkegaard, "On becoming a Christian" -- Kierkegaard on subjective truth -- Kierkegaard's existential dialectic -- Friedrich Nietzsche on nihilism and the death of God -- Nietzsche, the "immoralist" -- Nietzsche on freedom, fate, and responsibility -- Disc 3: Nietzsche, The Übermensch and The will to power -- Three grand inquisitors, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse -- Husserl, Heidegger, and phenomenology -- Heidegger on the world and the self -- Heidegger on "authenticity" -- Jean-Paul Sartre at war -- Disc 4: Sartre on emotions and responsibility -- Sartre's phenomenology -- Sartre on "bad faith" -- Sartre's Being-for-others and no exit -- Sartre on sex and love -- From existentialism to postmodernism. |
| Credits |
Editor, Sal Rodriguez. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Robert Solomon, Univ. of Texas. |
| Summary |
This lecture course by Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1. |
| Subject |
Existentialism -- Videodiscs.
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Philosophy and religion -- Videodiscs.
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Ontology -- Videodiscs.
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Phenomenology -- Videodiscs.
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Philosophy, Modern -- Videodiscs.
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Postmodernism -- Videodiscs.
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Existentialism. |
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Ontology. |
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Phenomenology. |
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Philosophy and religion. |
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Philosophy, Modern. |
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Postmodernism. |
| Added Author |
Blandford, James.
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Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Existentialism and the meaning of life |
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Great courses, no excuses: existentialism and the meaning of life |
| ISBN |
1565855779 |
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9781565855779 |
| Music No. |
437 Teaching Company |
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435--436 Teaching Company |
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