Includes 24 x 30 min. lectures.
Also Includes a Course Guidebook.

The Course Guidebook includes a glossary, biographical notes and bibliographical references.

"The message of Existentialism, unlike that of many more obscure and academic philosophical movements, is about as simple as can be. It is that every one of us, as an individual, is responsible - responsible for what we do, responsible for who we are, responsible for the way we face and deal with the world, responsible, ultimately, for the way the world is.

If you believe that life should be a quest for values, reasons, and purpose - filled with passion and governed by individual responsibility - then yours is the sort of mind to which the Existentialist philosophers were speaking.

If you want to enrich your own understanding of this unique philosophical movement, the visionary thinkers it brought together to ponder these questions, and the prominent role it still plays in contemporary thought, you now have an opportunity to do so with this 24-lecture course." (Publisher's Website)

DVD CONTENTS:

DISC 1
Lecture 1. What is Existentialism?
Lecture 2. Albert Camus - The Stranger, Part I
Lecture 3. Camus - The Stranger, Part II
Lecture 4. Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
Lecture 5. Camus - The Plague and The Fall
Lecture 6. Camus - The Fall, Part II

DISC 2
Lecture 7. Søren Kierkegaard, "On Becoming a Christian"
Lecture 8. Kierkegaard on Subjective Truth
Lecture 9. Kierkegaard's Existential Dialectic
Lecture 10. Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God
Lecture 11. Nietzsche, the "Immoralist"
Lecture 12. Nietzsche on Freedom, Fate, and Responsibility

DISC 3
Lecture 13. Nietzsche, The Übermensch and The Will to Power Lecture 14. Three Grand Inquisitors, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse
Lecture 15. Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology
Lecture 16. Heidegger on the World and the Self
Lecture 17. Heidegger on "Authenticity"
Lecture 18. Jean-Paul Sartre at War

DISC 4
Lecture 19. Sartre on Emotions and Responsibility
Lecture 20. Sartre's Phenomenology
Lecture 21. Sartre on "Bad Faith"
Lecture 22. Sartre's Being-for-Others and No Exit
Lecture 23. Sartre on Sex and Love
Lecture 24. From Existentialism to Postmodernism

GUIDEBOOK CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography Course Scope

LECTURE GUIDES
Lecture 1: What is Existentialism?
Lecture 2: Albert Camus - The Stranger, Part I
Lecture 3: Camus - The Stranger, Part II
Lecture 4: Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
Lecture 5: Camus - The Plague and The Fall
Lecture 6: Camus - The Fall, Part II Lecture 7: Søren Kierkegaard, "On Becoming a Christian"
Lecture 8: Kierkegaard on Subjective Truth
Lecture 9: Kierkegaard's Existential Dialectic
Lecture 10: Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God
Lecture 11: Nietzsche, the "Immoralist"
Lecture 12: Nietzsche on Freedom, Fate, and Responsibility
Lecture 13: Nietzsche, The Übermensch and The Will to Power
Lecture 14: Three Grand Inquisitors, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse
Lecture 15: Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology
Lecture 16: Heidegger on the World and the Self
Lecture 17: Heidegger on "Authenticity"
Lecture 18: Jean-Paul Sartre at War
Lecture 19: Sartre on Emotions and Responsibility
Lecture 20: Sartre's Phenomenology
Lecture 21: Sartre on "Bad Faith"
Lecture 22: Sartre's Being-for-Others and No Exit
Lecture 23: Sartre on Sex and Love
Lecture 24: From Existentialism to Postmodernism

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
Glossary
Biographical Notes

Bibliography