PHI 3377 Lecture Notes - Jean Hyppolite, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl
3 Dec 2013
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A worldview is a product of a certain age. The call for a person to be authentic against the force of the they. What enables change/transformation, is that we feel distress the underlying sensation that the world is not right. Focusing on what doesn"t fit register that something is wrong. Art and poetry one may not initially be able to express what"s wrong that"s where art comes in to register distress. More of a critic than positing a new view. Does not want to formulate new utopian ideas of how things should be. Born in 1926 in france into a bourgeois middleclass family. 1960 became head of the philosophy at a university in france. History of punishment the way it was viewed/what it was doing. History of sexuality only 2/3 volumes were published before his death. Political activist for repressed groups women, criminals, etc. He didn"t want to be categorized or accused of using 1 methodology.
