EXISTENTIAL DIALECTICS

Prof. Dr. habil. Maria Dimitrova

1. M. Heidegger: Ontology and Humanism.

2. K. Jaspers: Existence and Transcendence
3. J.-P. Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism
4. A. Camus: The Absurd and the Rebel
5. E. Levinas: Ontology and Ethics
6. E. Levinas: Responsibility for the Other and Freedom

Readings:

1. Martin Heidegger. Letter of Humanism. In: Basic Writings. Harper Collins

Publishers, 1993, p. 213-267
2. Karl Jaspers. Introduction. Philosophy of Existence. University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1971, p. 3-14
3. Jean–Paul Sartre. Existentialism and Humanism. In: The Continental
Philosophy Reader. Routledge, 1998, p. 65-76
4. Albert Camus. The Myth of Sisyphus (the different editorial versions are unified
and it does not matter which one you will use).
5. Emmanuel Levinas. Is Ontology Fundamental? In: Entre Nous: Thinking of the
Other. Columbia University Press, 1998. p.1-12
6. Emmanuel Levinas. Uniqueness. Entre Nous: Thinking of the Other. Columbia
University Press, 1998. p. 189-196

Secondary literature:

Maria Dimitrova. In Levinas’ Trace. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011