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Course Exam

180045 VO-L Time and Eternity within the Context of Indian Thought (2013S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie

Tuesday 24.09.2013 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3B NIG 3.Stock

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

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Examination topics

Lecture of the seminar holder. Every meeting will start with a student presentation (up to 10 minutes) that reviews the main points of the last meeting. Though the course is a lecture, there will be space for discussion.

You will find the literature that will be discussed in each meeting on our moodle internet plattform so that you can prepare yourself before the course takes place by reading the relevant texts in advance. (Moodle administration: Margarethe Urbanowicz-Luczynska <margarethe.luczynska@gmx.net>)

Assessment and permitted materials

At the end of the semester, there will be a written examination. The exact date will be announced at the beginning of June. About 13 students can also give a presentation (10 minutes) during the seminar that repeats the main points of the unit before. Those students must submit, in addition, a written version of their presentations (about 7 pages). The dates for these presentations will be fixed during the first meeting.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

1. Introduction into Indian Philosophies.
2. Comparison between cyclic conceptions of time in Indian Philosophies and poststructuralist philosophies (Nietzsche, Derrida, Butler)
3. Deconstruction of the Myth of the eternal recurrence of the same within indian and poststructrualist philosophies.

At the end of this course the students should be in a position to problematize the relation between time, rituell practices and the force to break with the simple repetition of stabilized structures.

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