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Resource Area Instructor Search Text All Resource Areas Arts and Design Educational Studies Environmental Sciences Human Studies Multi-Disciplinary Museum Studies Visvader, JohnAll Instructors Anderson, John Andrews, Nancy Beal, Elmer Bennett, Michael Berquist, Pete Borden, Rich Brechlin, Earl Capers, Colin Carpenter, JoAnne Carpenter, William Cass, Don Cline, Ken Colbert, Dru Cooper, John Cox, Gray Cox, Judith Creevey, Lucy Demeo, Anna DeWolfe, George Drennan, Matthew Feldman, Dave Hathaway, William Havsall, Lynn Heinz, Christine Hersey, Sue Hess, Helen Hill, Ken Little-Siebold, Todd Longsworth, Gordon Mancinelli, Isabel McKown, Jamie McMullen, Ernie McNally, Jay Morse, Suzanne Olday, Fred Pena, Karla Petersen, Chris Planchart, Antonio Rajakaruna, Nishanta (Nishi) Ressel, Stephen Sanborn, Kelley Sellers, Lucy Bell Stabinsky, Doreen Staff, Stover, Candice Swann, Scott Tai, Bonnie Taylor, Davis Todd, Sean Turok, Katharine Vande Berg, Camille Visvader, John Waldron, Karen

Taking the title from Wittgenstein's name "for the various resemblances between members of a family that overlap and criss-cross in the same way' this tutorial examines several themes that weave themselves through various sections of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Austin and Derrida.. Scepticism, religion, language and culture are some of the overlapping topics that will be traced through the writings of these different philosophers.  Seminar style requiring a final research paper.

Level: Advanced.  Class limit: 5.  Signature of instructor required.