Centre for philosophy, ethics and religion

Faculty of Arts, Charles University

invites you for two sessions with

Prof. Mark Wrathall

(University of Oxford)

session one

Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Authentic Religious Life

Date: WED 20.4.2022

Time: 15:50

Location: Room 217, FF UK – nám. Jana Palacha 2

For this session, please read Part One, Chapter Four and Part Two of Heidegger’s Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion (in Gesamtausgabe vol. 60: Phänomenologie des religiösen Lebens; English Translation is The Phenomenology of Religious Life).  Secondary source for the discussion is Denis McManus, “Being-Towards-Death and Owning One’s Judgment,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XCI (2015): 245-272

session two

The Modal Interpretation of Heideggerian Death

Date: THU 21.4.2022

Time: 17:30

Location: Room 225V, FF UK – nám. Jana Palacha 2

For the second session, the primary text is Division Two, Chapter I of Being and Time. Possible secondary reading is Thomson, I. (2021). Death (Tod). In M. Wrathall (Ed.), The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon (pp. 210-220). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The secondary readings are available online or contact jakub.jirsa@ff.cuni.cz for them.