GERMN-256 Human Existence: Heidegger and Arendt

What is the nature of human existence? Are there aspects of human experience that are common to all people, across cultures and time periods? How are we to make sense of our everyday experience? And what responsibilities does this existence force on us? To answer these questions, we will look at two seminal philosophical works of continental philosophy, the First Division of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, in 1927, and The Human Condition, by his student, Hannah Arendt, published in 1958. We will explore the challenges posed to the history of Western metaphysics by Heidegger, and then take up Arendt as an attempt to expand and correct Heidegger for the post-World War II world.

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