Existentialism (PHL 211)

Term: 2025-2026 Academic Year Spring Term

Faculty

Brian Lee TrukaShow MyInfo popup for Brian Lee Truka

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Office Hours:

MTWF: 10am - 11am

     Th: 10am - 12am

& by appointment

Schedule

Tue-Thu, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (3/30/2026 - 6/11/2026) Location: NC SITK 12

Description

From the turn of the 19th Century and through the 20th Century, a continued challenge to historical dialectics found voice through writers such as Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger. These varied authors and ideas have been secured under the broad banner of Existentialism. This course will examine this varied and nuanced conceptual terrain via select existentialist writers to represent thematics topics such as meaning, freedom, authenticity, and despair while connecting how such concepts continue to inform our thinking.