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
Being and Time (sections) - Martin Heidegger
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

Introduction and Brentano
Husserl – Founder of Phenomenology and Logical Investigations
Husserl – Reduction and Transcendental Phenomenology, European Sciences
Heidegger – Phenomenology and Being and Time
Gadamer and Arendt
Levinas and Sartre
Merleau-Ponty and Derrida

Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) - René Descartes

Meditations 1-3*
Meditations 4-6

The Paris Lectures (1967) – Edmund Husserl

Preface through Introduction
General Summary
Paris Lectures

Invisible Man (1952) – Ralph Ellison

Introduction to 3*
3-6
6-9
9-12
12-15
15-18
18-21
21-25

No Longer Human (1948) – Osamu Dazai

First Notebook
Second Notebook
Third Notebook 1 and 2

The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – Frantz Fanon

Jean-Paul Sartre Preface
Concerning Violence
Spontaneity – Its Strengths and Weakness
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness
On National Culture
Colonial War and Mental Disorders

Nausea (1938) – Jean-Paul Sartre

1-44
45-89
89-133
133-177

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