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Thinking the Crisis of Western Civilization: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida

X126.5 (3 semester units in History)

In the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche prophesied an age of war and conflict in his account of the arrival of nihilism in the European consciousness, a prophecy that established his credentials for the European thinkers who followed in his wake. You will examine the influence of Nietzsche's philosophy on the later thought of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the postmodernism of Michel Foucault, and the deconstructionism of Jacques Derrida. You will also consider the lasting effects of these ideas for the twenty-first century.

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Wed. Sept. 2, Berkeley

JOSEF CHYTRY, D.Phil., named Honored Instructor in 2009, (Oxford), is adjunct professor in cultural history and visual criticism at the California College of the Arts and managing editor of the Oxford journal Industrial and Corporate Change. He is author of Cytherica: Aesthetic-Political Essays in an Aphrodisian Key and The Aesthetic State.

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• $525 (EDP 021634)

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