PHIL Course Title: The Later Heidegger: Contributions to Philosophy and Other Writings. Course Outline

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1 PHIL 3652 Course Title: The Later Heidegger: Contributions to Philosophy and Other Writings Course Outline Time:T 12:30-15:15 Location:ICS L1 Course overview (as shown on CUSIS) This course will look into the philosophical programme of the later Heidegger. During the semester, students have to go through selected texts including those published by Heidegger himself from the thirties on, and those published posthumously as subsequent volumes of the Gesamtausgabe. By way of textual reading, aided by course lectures, students are expected to identify the key issues handled by the later Heidegger, as for instance, Being as appropriation, history of Being, technology and machination, role of art, language and Being, metaphysics as meta-politics, tautological thinking, etc. Taking into consideration that the majority of students might not have studied Heidegger s earlier opus magnum Being and Time, two weeks will be dedicated to some central issues of this work to pave the way for our subsequent focus on the later Heidegger. Besides class presentation and class discussion, students are expected to hand in a term paper by the end of the term. Learning outcomes (as shown on CUSIS) 1. Acquire knowledge of the selected topics of the course. 2. Have a solid grasp of the philosophical issues of the selected topics of the course. 3. Demonstrate familiarity with the primary/secondary source texts. 4. Be able to articulate and defend a philosophical thesis of their own. Topics to be chosen from The programme of Being and Time and its Shipwreck Heidegger s Schematism of Life The Question of Being revisited Being and Dasein Tautological thinking as a programme Being as appropriation The problem of God Heidegger and the history of Western philosophy Heidegger s political involvement Metaphysics as Meta-Politics The problem of technik and machination The problem of language 1

2 Learning activities Studying of texts Class presentation and discussion Term paper Assessment scheme Task nature Description Weight Class presentation 30% Class discussion 20% Final term paper 50% Remarks on Assessment Scheme (if any) Recommended learning resources Heidegger s Texts Heidegger s Gesamtausgabe Being and Time, translation by Robinson and Macquarrie. Selections On Time and Being. Introduction to Metaphysics (chapter 2) Identity and Difference Contributions to Philosophy (translations 1999 and 2012) Selections Only a God Can Save Us. The Spiegel Interview (1966), translated by Willian J. Richardson SJ. Black Notebooks (Ponderings) Selections Secondary Material Otto Pöggeler: Martin Heidegger s Path of Thinking (trans.) Magurshak and Barber (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1987). Otto Pöggeler: Den Führer führen? Heidegger und kein Ende, Philosophische Rundschau, 32 Jg. (1985), Jürgen Habermas, Work and Weltanschauung: The Heidegger Controversy from a German Perspective, (trans.) John McCumber, Critical Inquiry 15, Rüdiger Safranski, Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit. (English translation) Richard Rojcewicz, The Gods and Technology. A Reading of Heidegger. (New York: SUNY, 2006). The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (eds.) Francois Raffoul and Eric S. Nelson (London: Bloomsbury, 2016). 2

3 Jürg Altwegg (hrsg.), Die Heidegger Kontroverse (Frankfurt/Main: Athenäum, 1988). Karl Jaspers, Die Schuldfrage (Heidelberg: Schneider, 1946), eng. Translation: The Question of German Guilt. David Farrell Krell, Ecstasy, Catastrophe. Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks (New York: SUNY, 2015). Jeff E. Malpas and Ingo Farin (eds.) Reading Heidegger s Black Notebooks (Cambridge-Mass: MIT Press, 2016). 孫周興 : 存在與超越 海德格與西哲漢譯問題,( 上海 : 復旦大學出版社,2013) 梁家榮 : 本源與意義 : 前期海德格爾與現象學研究,( 北京 : 商務印書館,2014) Tze-wan Kwan ( 關子尹 ) Die hermeneutische Phänomenologie und das tautologische Denken Heideggers (Bonn: Bouvier-Verlag, 1982) 海德格論 別人的獨裁 與 存活的獨我 從現象學觀點看世界 ["From 'dictatorship of the they' to `existential solus ipse': a Heideggerian problematic of life-world"], in: Legein Bulletin( 鵝湖學誌 )Vol.6, Taipei, 1991, Pp "The Human Sciences and Historicality: Heidegger and the Self-Positioning of the Western Humanistic Tradition", Time, Space and Culture, edited by David Carr and C.F. Cheung, Series: Contributions to Phenomenology (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004), pp "Hegelian and Heideggerian Tautologies". Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 88 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005), pp 黑格爾與海德格 - 兩種不同形態的同一性思維 [Hegelian and Heideggerian Tautologies]. 同濟大學學報 ( 社會科學版 ), Vol. 25, No. 1 (62), ( 上海 : 同濟大學出版社,2014.2), pp 海德格的 同一性 思維與道家哲學 [Heidegger's 'Tautological Thinking' and Taoist Philosophy], 現象學與人文科學 (Phenomenology & the Human Sciences), Taipei, Vol. 2, , pp "Towards a Phenomenology of Pronouns", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, London: Routledge, June 2007, pp "An Interview with Professor Tze-wan Kwan" (by Darian Meacham, in December 2005, Leuven, Belgium) The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, Vol. 15, (Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 2007), pp 從語詞場域理論看哲學經典的漢語翻譯問題, 現象學與當代哲學 第二期 (Journal of Phenomenology & Contemporary Philosophy), Vol. 2, Taipei, , pp "Heidegger s Schematism of Life and its Kantian Inheritance: A Critical Appraisal", for Otto Pöggeler on his eightieth birthday, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. 12 (Issue 2012), published 29 August 2013, Acumen Publishing, pp Course schedule Week Topics Required reading Tutorials Remarks To be announce at the beginning of term 3

4 Details of course website Contact details for teacher(s) or TA(s) Teacher Name: Kwan Tze-Wan Office location: FKH Building 410 Telephone: TA Name: Office location: Telephone: Academic honesty and plagiarism Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are 4

5 aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures. For group projects, all students of the same group should be asked to sign the declaration. For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students uploading of the soft copy of the assignment. Assignments without the receipt will not be graded by teachers. Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide. 5