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The 20th century witnessed a major revolution in western intellectual history. The very nature and structure of the language with which a comprehensive picture of the human and the natural worlds was constructed over two thousand years was called into question. This course attempts to follow the most important strands of this revolution from the early movement of logical positivism through both the phenomenological and linguistic analytical tradition. Special emphasis will be placed on the ideas of Husserl and Heidegger and on the early and late Wittgenstein. The implications of "deconstruction" and "post-modernism" will be examined by a comparison of the ideas of Wittgenstein and Derrida. This course is also designed to provide a solid background for more detailed work in courses on Heidegger, Wittgenstein and post-modernism.
Level: Intermediate/advanced. Prerequisites: Philosophy courses or intellectual history. *HS*
John Visvader
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