Pre-Requisite(s): None

Content:

Introduction to phenomenology; Phenomenologists’ critique of Cartesian Dualism and Logical Positivism; Edmund Husserl’s ‘phenomenological reduction’; Distinction between noema and noesis; Husserl on Science, Philosophy & Culture; Selected Sections from Dan Zahavi ed. Husserl’s Crisis: Part 1 ‘Is there, in view of their constant successes, really a crisis of the science?’ Martin Heidegger’s view of Phenomenology; The structure of ‘being-in-the-world’; The existential structure of Dasein; Concept of Authenticity; Martin Heidegger’s perspectives on Science & Technology; Reading Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology?’ Critique of Enlightenment Values, The Theory of Communicative Action and Intersubjectivity in Jurgen Habermas; Deliberative Democracy; Concept of Life-world & Intersubjectivity; Critique of Science and Technology; The Concept of Freedom and Responsibility in Jean Paul Sartre; Maurice Merleau Ponty’s critique of Husserl and Heidegger and the concept of Lived Experience; Phenomenology Today: Global Democracy & Discourse; Intersubjectivity, Sociality & Community: Phenomenological perspectives; Contemporary issues in phenomenology: Embodiment and Intersectionalities, Technology & Mediation, Environment and Ecology.

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2. Carl Mitcham & Robert Mackey (eds), 1974, Philosophy and Technology, Macmillan Publishing.
3. Martin Heidegger, 2010, Being and Time, ed. Dennis J. Schmidt, State University of New York Press, Albany.
4. Jurgen Habermas, 2015, The Theory of Communicative Action: LifeWorld and System The Critique of Functionalist Reason, Vol 2, trans. Thomas McCarthy, Beacon Press.
5. Maurice Merleau Ponty, 1996, Phenomenology of Perception, trans by Colin Smith, New Delhi: Motilal Benarsidaas.
6. Edmund Husserl, 1970, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, trans by David Carr, Northwestern Press, Evaston.
7. Richard Holmes, 1995, The Transcendence of the World: Phenomenological Studies, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
8. Dan Zahavi, 2018, The Oxford Handbook of The History of Phenomenology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9. Hubert L. Dreyfus, 1993, Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division, Boston: MIT Press.
10. Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine, eds., 2003, Eco-Phenomenology: Back To The Earth Itself, New York: SUNY.