I did Tommy, on edit, link to the syllabus...

But, in a nutshell

How do you philosophize about the absolutely unknown? About the (perhaps) unknowable? Death may present philosophy with its most profound questions . . . How do you think the unthinkable? How do you conceptualize the entirely other? For philosophy, death is the limit of certainty, and the certainty of (a) limit. It is (at) the limit of philosophy, which is why it makes an interesting philosophical subject. Is it also the end? Of the subject? Of philosophy? And how are we to understand that end? We’ll take up these questions in the works of four contemporary thinkers: Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida.

Texts

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality. City Lights, 1986. ISBN: 0872861902 (paperback)

Jacques Derrida, Aporias. Stanford University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0804722528. (paperback)

Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death. University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 0226143066. (paperback)

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit, Trans. Joan Stambaugh. State University of New York Press, 1996. ISBN: 0791426785 (paperback)

Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death, and Time. Stanford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0804736669

For instance, Peter Singer uses some plausible-looking premises and rules of inference to get to the conclusion that we all have a strong moral obligation to give all the money we make over $30,000 to Oxfam.

Okay, this I totally get. I mean, argument for argument's sake -- what's not to love? What's the pay scale like?

That right there looks like some light reading, Kat. Perhaps one of those should be the next tome for the club.

MWAH! you're a cutie msbelle!

Hey, speaking of light reading, though this genuinely is. Have you heard of the Historian?

Derrida recently died (last Nov, I think), so I wonder if he found that he was right.

What's the pay scale like?

Maximum salary is $30,000.

Maximum salary is $30,000.

Only until someone proves different ...

no, I don't think I have.

(flips sign on bus to include table sentience) Which might be kind of sad actually, Hec, think how unacknowledged they might feel.

supposed to be good, but I'm in the middle of kiddie lit still, 50% of which is boring X2.