Phenomenology Independent Study

1/23/24 update: Putting a pin in this one; the bandwidth ain't there right now. Nonetheless, I'm keeping it up.

12/19/24: What's up folks. Listed is where I'm choosing to upload my various philosophical, literary, or critical notes and thoughts as I go through this study. Here's the syllabus I wrote for an upcoming self-conducted independent study:

Introduction to Phenomenology
Emphasis: Ego, Identity, and Isolation
Winter 2023 – Spring 2024
Andrew Ha
andrew.ha@bruins.belmont.edu

Required Media:
Introduction to Phenomenology (1999) – Dermot Moran
Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) - René Descartes
The Paris Lectures (1967) – Edmund Husserl
The World of Perception (2008) – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Invisible Man (1952) – Ralph Ellison
No Longer Human (1948) – Osamu Dazai
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – Frantz Fanon
The Face of Another (1966, film) – Hiroshi Teshigahara
Nausea (1938) – Jean-Paul Sartre
Additional Supplement/Deviation Readings:
~ On Time and Being (1969) – Martin Heidegger
~ Cartesian Meditations (1929) – Edmund Husserl

Assignments:
500-1000 word papers after each text, the first being on one particular thinker.
Final paper due TBA, minimum 2000 words.
To maximize flexibility, there is a reading list instead of a reading schedule. May be read in any
order, this is just catalogued list of reading needing to be done.

• means done

Introduction to Phenomenology (1999) – Dermot Moran

1. Introduction and Brentano
2. Husserl – Founder of Phenomenology and Logical Investigations
3. Husserl – Reduction and Transcendental Phenomenology, European Sciences
4. Heidegger – Phenomenology and Being and Time
5. Gadamer and Arendt
6. Levinas and Sartre
7. Merleau-Ponty and Derrida

Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) - René Descartes

1. Meditations 1-3*
2. Meditations 4-6

The Paris Lectures (1967) – Edmund Husserl

1. Preface through Introduction
2. General Summary
3. Paris Lectures

The World of Perception (2008) – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

1. Introduction through to Space*
2. Space to Animal Life*
3. Animal Life through to Classical World, Modern World*

Invisible Man (1952) – Ralph Ellison

1. Introduction to 3*
2. 3-6
3. 6-9
4. 9-12
5. 12-15
6. 15-18
7. 18-21
8. 21-25

No Longer Human (1948) – Osamu Dazai

1. First Notebook
2. Second Notebook
3. Third Notebook 1 and 2

The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – Frantz Fanon

1. Jean-Paul Sartre Preface
2. Concerning Violence
3. Spontaneity – Its Strengths and Weakness
4. The Pitfalls of National Consciousness
5. On National Culture
6. Colonial War and Mental Disorders

Nausea (1938) – Jean-Paul Sartre

1. 1-44
2. 45-89
3. 89-133
4. 133-177