Below you'll find a detailed list of the readings for each week. This list will include links to PDF documents that supplement the textbooks for this course. You can read these PDFs online, or print them to bring to class. The list of textbooks, both required and recommended, can be found here.
Week 1
Mansfield, "Bliss" (PDF)
Kierkegaard, selections from Fear and Trembling (PDF)
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (selections in Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 7-23)
Week 2
Kierkegaard, selections from Concluding Unscientific Postscript (PDF)
Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death (selections in Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 41-57)
In a Hurry?
Read just the Sickness Unto Death selection above [16 pages]
Can’t Get Enough?
Read this extra chunk from Concluding Unscientific Postscript (PDF)
Week 3
Nietzsche, "Preface," Genealogy of Morals (PDF)
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (selections in Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 111-144)
In a Hurry?
Read sections 1-4, 6-10, 12 of the above selection [15 pages]
Can’t Get Enough?
Read the second essay of the Genealogy of Morals (Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 145-187)
Week 4
Nietzsche, selections from The Gay Science (PDF)
In a Hurry?
Read the “Hurry” version of the above PDF [18 pages]
Can’t Get Enough?
Read sections 4 and 5 of The Gay Science (pp.223-348)
Week 5
Heidegger,Dasein (short version! from Being and Time)
Heidegger, Being and Time (selections in Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 319-336)
Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (PDF)
In a Hurry?
Just read the Tolstoy story!
Can’t Get Enough?
Read these two Heidegger selections: Dasein (longer version, from Being and Time) and Worldhood and Readiness-to-hand (PDF)
Week 6
Camus, Myth of Sisyphus (selections in Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 441-488)
In a Hurry?
Read just pp. 447-460, 477-488 of the above selection
Can’t Get Enough?
Read all of Myth of Sisyphus in the Everyman’s Library Camus book
Week 7
Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism (Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 341-367)
In a Hurry?
Read just pp. 341-353 of the above selection
Can’t Get Enough?
Read Sartre’s The Flies
Week 8
Sartre, No Exit
Sartre, Being and Nothingness (selections in Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 369-373, 380-390)
In a Hurry?
Read one of the two above… either one! Your choice!
Can’t Get Enough?
Read all of the Being and Nothingness selection (Marino, pp. 369-409)
Week 9
Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity (selections in Marino, Basic Writings, pp. 413-436)
In a Hurry?
Get going on Camus, The Plague, for the final class
Can’t Get Enough?
Read extra Beauvoir selection (online PDF) [coming soon!]
Week 10
Camus, The Plague
In a Hurry?
Read these selections: pp. 3-7, 23-29, 36-41, 67-92, 122-139, 160-164, 167-72, 181-185, 243-257, 269-275 [90 pages]
Can’t Get Enough?
Read Camus, Reflections on the Guillotine, pp. 609-656 in Everyman’s Library Camus book