Academic Catalog

PHIL538 TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGY

Course Code: 2410538
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Philosophy
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. ÞEREF HALÝL TURAN
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Conceptions of and responses to the provocation of technology in twentieth-century Continental thought; human beings and technology - mutual effects; the changing self-understanding of human being amidst modern technology; influential understandings of twentieth-century technology in the work of Heidegger, Canguilhem, Deleuze and Guattari, and De Landa.