Pursuing existential phenomenology

Would like to do some more work in this area. Trying to find online source material

fessor Dreyfus has taught many popular existentialism andphenomenology courses at UC Berkeley, some of which laid the foundation for this book. Happily, you can find Dreyfus’ philosophy courses online. And, even better, you can download them for free. The courses are listed below, and also in the Philosophy section of our big collection of Free Online Courses.

• Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Heidegger – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Heidegger’s Being & Time – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Man, God, and Society in Western Literature - iTunes Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley

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Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor in Physics

Leonard Susskind received a PhD from Cornell University and has been a professor at Stanford since 1979. He has won both the Pregel Award from the New York Academy of Science and the J.J. Sakurai Prize in theoretical particle physics. His current research interests include the structure of hadrons, instantons, quark confinement, and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

3. Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic

The central text in the canon of Latin literature is Virgil’s Aeneid, an epic poem in twelve books composed more than two thousand years ago under the Roman emperor Augustus. The poem was an instant hit. It became a school text immediately and has remained central to studies of Roman culture to the present day. How can a poem created in such a remote literary and social environment speak so eloquently to subsequent ages? In this course we will discover what kind of poem this is and what kind of hero Aeneas is. Our studies will focus chiefly on the poem itself and on wider aspects of Roman culture. It will be essential to commit to reading the poem ahead of time, at a rate of about 100 pages per week. We will use the energetic translation by Robert Fitzgerald.

Susanna Braund, Professor of Classics

Susanna Braund arrived at Stanford from Yale in 2004. Prior to that, she taught in the UK for twenty years, at the universities of Exeter, Bristol, and London. She is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books and papers on Latin literature, especially Roman satire and epic poetry, including an introductory volume entitled Latin Literature (Routledge, 2002). Her passion for making connections between antiquity and the modern world is reflected in her regular radio broadcasts for KZSU called “Myth Made Modern.”