PHIL 4153 Course Title: Philosophy of Culture: - The Later Heidegger: Contributions to Philosophy and Other Writings Course Outline Time:T 5-7 Location: ICS L1 Location : 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, the first beginning versus the other beginning., etc. In embarking upon all these, one major purpose of the course is to see in what way Heidegger s later thinking amounts to a philosophy of culture. 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
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 I. Heidegger s Texts Heidegger s Gesamtausgabe Being and Time, translation by Robinson and Macquarrie. Selections On Time and Being. Introduction to Metaphysics (chapter 2) Letter on Humanism Identity and Difference Contributions to Philosophy (translations 1999 and 2012) Selections Only a God Can Save Us (1966). The Spiegel Interview (trans.) Willian J. Richardson SJ. Black Notebooks (Ponderings) Selections II. Secondary Material Jürg Altwegg (hrsg.), Die Heidegger Kontroverse (Frankfurt/Main: Athenäum, 1988). Ernst Cassirer, Zur Logik der Kulturwissenschaften, 關子尹中譯 : 人文科學的邏輯 David Farrell Krell, Ecstasy, Catastrophe. Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks (New York: SUNY, 2015). Jürgen Habermas, Work and Weltanschauung: The Heidegger Controversy from a German Perspective, (trans.) John McCumber, Critical Inquiry, 15, 1989. Karl Jaspers, Die Schuldfrage (Heidelberg: Schneider, 1946), eng. Translation: The Question of German Guilt. 2
Jeff E. Malpas and Ingo Farin (eds.) Reading Heidegger s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 (Cambridge-Mass: MIT Press, 2016). The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (eds.) Francois Raffoul and Eric S. Nelson (London: Bloomsbury, 2016). 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). Otto Pöggeler: Being as Appropriation (trans.) Rüdiger Hermann Grimm, Philosophy Today, 1975, 152-178. Richard Rojcewicz, The Gods and Technology. A Reading of Heidegger (New York: SUNY, 2006). Rüdiger Safranski, Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit. (English translation) 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), vi+217 pages. ISBN: 3-416-01673-4. 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.113-164 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. 31-55. 存在類比與海德格 存在與時間 著作計劃的廢止 兼論 存在與時間 的理論佈局 [Analogy of Being and Heidegger's Abandonment of the Writing Plan of Being & Time: With Glimpses into the Theoretical Layout of the Book], presented at the 詮釋現象學及其蛻變 : 海德格 存在與時間 出版八十週年學術會議,Held 25-26 May 2007. Published in: 現象學與當代哲學 創刊號 (Journal of Phenomenology & Contemporary Philosophy), Taipei, Vol. 1, 2007.12, pp. 21-76 Hegelian and Heideggerian Tautologies. Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 88 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005), pp. 317-336. 劉保禧 謝昭銳 李康廷 伍一勤中譯 : 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. 1-14. 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, 2005.12, pp. 211-259. Towards a Phenomenology of Pronouns, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, London: Routledge, June 2007, pp. 247-268. An Interview with Professor Tze-wan Kwan (by Darian Meacham, in December 2005, Leuven, Belgium) The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, Vol. 15, 2006-2007 (Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 2007), pp. 35-41. 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, 2008.12, pp. 131-168. 3
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. 38-68. 劉保禧 婁振業 楊德立中譯 : 海德格爾的 生命圖式程序 學說及其康德遺風, 王慶節 張任之編, 海德格爾 - 翻譯 解釋與理解,( 北京 : 三聯,2017.6),pp. 69-115 Course schedule Week Topics Required reading Tutorials Remarks To be announced at the beginning of term Details of course website Te be announced 4
Contact details for teacher(s) or TA(s) Teacher Name: Kwan Tze-Wan Office location: FKH Building 410 Telephone: 39438554 Email: twkwan@cuhk.edu.hk TA Name: Office location: Telephone: Email: 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 http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/ With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are 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