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2025 unit information
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1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided)
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
Over the course of this unit, students will develop a critical understanding of key ideas in existentialist philosophy and debates over power and freedom in 19th and 20th century European thought. Influential accounts of themes such as freedom, anguish (or anxiety), mortality, authenticity, and value will be discussed, as well as philosophical and political critiques of existentialism offered by major thinkers.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Understand, compare, and critically evaluate key ideas in 19th and 20th-century French European philosophy concerning the nature of subjectivity and freedom from a range of philosophers
GLO1: Discipline specific
GLO2: Communication
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship
Critically apply a number of key ideas from 19th and 20th-century European thinkers to practical examples, and understand and evaluate how these ideas relate to current views about subjectivity and the social order.
GLO5: Problem solving
Construct and evaluate philosophical arguments, backed by relevant evidence, and present competing claims in the context of philosophical dialogue.
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year.
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for ASP211 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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