HISTORY OF IDEAS

philosophical movements in socio-historical context
taught by  Dr. Helena Sheehan
 in the  School of Communications at  Dublin City University

LECTURESfemale thinker

week 1         overview of course  week 2    introduction to the history of philosophy: the story so far . . .
                                    the major transitions: from primitive to feudal to medieval to modern thought
                    the big questions / basic philosophies/ root metaphors
        timeline of western philosophy (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

week  2  ancient philosophy

week  3  medieval philosophy

week 4  modern philosophy
    timeline of modern philosophy

week 5  (bank holiday)

week 6  marxism

week  7 experiments in the relationship of world view & social order

politics & philosophy in the socialist movement: marxism in power

week 8  contemporary philosophy: analytical / anglo-american
                                positivism / logical positivism / neo-positivism / analytic philosophy
                                pragmatism / naturalism / radical empiricism / process philosophy

week 9  contemporary philosophy: continental
                                 existentialism / phenomenology / varieties of continental philosophy

                               Camus "The Myth of Sisyphus"     to read the text, click  here


week 10  postmodernism

   the future of philosophy
                      end of ideology / end of history theories
                               text  grand narratives then & now: can we still conceptualise history ?

week  11  new social movements and the history of philosophy 
                 class, race, gender and knowledge
 

week 12  eurocentrism and philosophy
                            is this course eurocentric ?

      course diaries