Upon successful completion of this course, students will have demonstrated an ability to:
- demonstrate an understanding of existentialist thought;
- analyse both philosophical and literary texts;
- challenge their understanding of existence;
- reflect on the broader philosophical and literary contexts into which Sartre's writing fits;
- perform textual criticism, challenging existing meanings and understandings of canonical texts and offering their own interpretations of primary material;
- develop research skills by engaging with secondary material;
- analyse the ways in which world-views are moulded by society's control structures.

The Philosophy of Existentialism, including: the notions of absurdity, contingency and freedom, being for itself, authenticity & bad faith.
Sartre's seminal novel Nausea as embodying existential and phenomenological themes.
The fictional representations of Existentialism in The Wall and other works;
Consideration of the literature of Existentialism in relation to Surrealism, Modernism & Postmodernism.

ENGL3015

Students who have completed ENGL3015 may not enrol in this course

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20 units of Philosophy at 1000 level.

Internal Mode

Lecture

Lecture: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term