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HDS 3819

Existential - Phenomenological Anthropology

Michael D. Jackson

Description

The aim of this seminar course is to familiarize students with some of the main topics, themes and methods associated with existential-phenomenological thought, and to explore ways in which this tradition may prove useful to students in their own research and writing. Key concepts include intentionality and temporality, the epoché, the body-subject, praktognosis, lived experience, lifeworld, intersubjectivity, the illusio, being (Dasein), language, narrativity, space and place, the emotions and the imagination.

Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes

Scheduling

Half Course
Expected to be offered: Fall 2010
Course times to be announced.
Location to be announced.

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus Philosophy of Religion
Religion and the Social Sciences
MDiv Distribution Category/ies Non-Tradition Specific
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry Religious Education
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area Area 3
Language Course Designation(s) n/a

 

 
 

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