<Theofragen>

For the last few years I've felt like a kid trying to put together a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle without all the pieces. Needless to say, the task has proven rather daunting. I'm speaking in terms of my intellectual development with specific regard to philosophy. So this is my attempt to do something about this quagmire.

Right now, I feel pretty well versed in "postmodern" philosophy and in philosophical hermeneutics. These topics lay close to my intellectual passions. However, I wish to develop a more well-rounded understanding of where these postmodern philosophers get their ideas (both which they adopt and criticize). At PTS, I got just enough philosophy to be dangerous. So this is my master's degree in philosophy.

I plan to read about these authors and their primary works and write a paper on each. Some of these books I've already read, but I feel that I will understand some of their esoteric language better if I place them within their tradition and understand their predecessors. Feel free to recommend a book or two, if you see any gaps in my outline of study. Peace.

History of Philosophy
Hegel
o The Phenomenology of Spirit
o Hegel: The Essential Writings
o The Philosophy of History
Marx
o Communist Manifesto
o The Marx-Engels Reader
Kierkegaard
o Fear And Trembling
o Concluding Unscientific Postscript
o Either/Or
Nietzsche
o The Portable Nietzsche
o The Anti-Christ
o Beyond Good and Evil
o The Gay Science
Husserl
o Basic Writings in Transcendental Phenomenology
Foucault
o The Essential Foucault
o The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language
o Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings
Derrida
o Of Grammatology
o Speech and Phenomena
o A Derrida Reader
Rorty
o Objectivity, Relativism and Truth
o Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
Buber
o I and Thou
o Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue
Levinas
o Totality and Infinity
o Otherwise than Being

Hermeneutics
Schleiermacher
o Hermeneutics: The Handwritten Manuscripts
o Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher
Dilthey
o Dilthey: Selected Writings
Heidegger
o Being and Time
o Poetry, Language, Thought
Gadamer
o Truth and Method

Language
Wittgenstein
o On Certainty
o Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
o Philosophical Investigations
De Saussure
o Course in General Linguistics
Â Barthes
o The Pleasure of the Text
o Mythologies
LÃ©vi-Strauss
o Myth and Meaning
o Structural Anthropology
Said
o Culture and Imperialism
o Edward Said Reader
o Power, Politics and Culture

My Master's Degree

6 Comments: