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PL 213 Overview

This course examines the progression of post-Kantian European philosophy from Hegel to Heidegger. Topics may include: the development and main outlines of Hegel's Absolute Idealism; the materialist critiques of Hegelianism in Feuerbach and Marx; irrationalist responses to Hegel by such thinkers as Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche; and the rise of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Existentialism in Husserl and Heidegger.