Philosophizers and Criticizers
Senior English.
Tue, Aug 23rd, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Themes: Identity, Philosophy, Things Fall Apart
Over the past few days we’ve delved into a number of philosophical perspectives on identity. Your current assignment is to research one of the philosophers we’ve discussed, read a selection of his work, write a synopsis of your reading, and present your findings to the class. ((We are essentially crowd-sourcing our research for this paper.)) For your benefit, here’s a list of authors:
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- George Berkeley (1685-1753)
- David Hume (1711-1776)
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- John Keats (1795-1821)
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)
- José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
We’ll sign up for presentation dates tomorrow with the first presentation the following day. If you’ve got your eye on an author, snag a reading (let me know if you have trouble), send me a link, synopsize it, and be ahead of the game for Thursday.