Below you will find links to mini-lectures, that should help with each week's readings, as well as recordings of the class sessions. Other interesting bits may also be posted here as the course progresses.
Week 1
Getting Started with Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Class session (Part 1)
Class session (Part 2)
(slides from session)
Week 2
"Preface" to Concluding Unscientific Postscript - a short, funny passage from the book that helps get a sense of Kierkegaard's style and sense of humor
Getting Started with Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Getting Started with Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death
Class session (Part 1 - Recap of Last Week's Hands-on Exercise)
Class session (Part 2 - Fear and Trembling)
Class session (Part 3 - Concluding Unscientific Postscript)
(slides from whole session)
Week 3
Introduction to reading Nietzsche
Getting Started with Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
Class session (Part 1) (slides from part 1)
Class session (Part 2) (slides from part 2)
Week 4
Class session (Part 1)
Class session (Part 2)
(slides from session)
Week 5
Class session (Part 1) (Nietzsche wrap-up)
Class session (Part 2) (Tolstoy)
(slides from whole class)
Week 6
Getting Started with Heidegger's Being and Time (Part 1, deals with 1-page PDF selection)
Getting Started with Heidegger's Being and Time (Part 2, deals with selection in Basic Writings)
Getting Started with Camus's Myth of Sisyphus
Class session (Part 1)
Class session (Part 2)
(slides from whole class)
more on Heidegger: Dreyfus's UC Berkeley course on Heidegger, free on iTunes U
Week 7
Class session (Part 1) (Camus/Absurd conclusion)
Class session (Part 2) (Sartre introduction)
(slides from whole class)
Week 8
Class session (Part 1)
Class session (Part 2)
(slides from whole class)
Week 9
Class session (Part 1) (slides from whole class)
Class session (Part 2)
Week 10
Class session (Part 1) (slides from whole class)
Class session (Part 2)