Topics in Western Religious Thought: Phenomenology and Theology
 (RS 4N03, Winter 2010)

TEXT SUMMARY 2

Assignment due in class on January 20* from students who have signed up for it.

*Since part of the value of the text summary assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due.  If you have to miss that day's class, please contact me to make alternate arrangements.

Please prepare a written summary (2-3 pages** long) of:

Martin Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena, trans. Theodore Kisiel [purchase book / make personal copy from book on reserve]: §§21 and 22 to p. 183 top (i.e., pp. 167 bottom - 183 top [German pagination: 226-47]) 

Some notes on this assignment:

  • The selection to be summarized is only a portion of the assigned selection for Jan. 20.

  • In writing your summary, focus special attention on defining key terms used.  For this purpose, you may wish refer to passages outside the selection to be summarized (give page references accordingly).

  • A good way to approach Heidegger's long discussion of Descartes is to ask yourself: what claims by Descartes is Heidegger interested in, and why is he interested in them?  

 

In preparing this summary, please follow the guidelines in: 

  • Hugo Bedau, Thinking and Writing About Philosophy, 2nd ed. (2002), pp. 7-15 [book on reserve / master copy in UH 104]
  • Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources, pp. 1-5; 20 ("Abbreviated Citation for Frequently Used Sources"), and 37-38 ("In-Text Style for the Humanities") [purchase book / book on reserve / master copy in UH 104]

 

**Please print your assignment double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font.  Please number and staple the pages you hand in. 

Please keep a copy of your summary to refer to in our class discussions of Heidegger over the next few meetings.

 

posted/distributed January 13, 2010