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This course focuses on one of the seminal figures
of continental political philosophy:
Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s thought has long
been acknowledged to present one of the
most trenchant critiques of modern society, science,
philosophy, art and politics. His insights
into the nature of truth, subjectivity and morality
have been extremely influential on many of
the major currents of thought of contemporary philosophy;
from the phenomenology of Heidegger
to the existentialism of Sartre, from the critical
theory of Adorno and Horkheimer to the
poststructuralism of Foucault. The overall aim
of the course is to orient the students towards
an in-depth, sustained critical engagement with some of the
foundational ideas of contemporary philosophy
and politics via a close reading of Nietzsche’s
work. Issues that are of special interest
include the nature of morality, ideology,
politics and the state.
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