Undergraduate Module Descriptor

PHL3025A: Philosophical Readings 4

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics in the work of Jürgen Habermas:
1. The critical theory of the public sphere
2. The early theory of cognitive interests as the basis of an anthropological epistemology.
3. The idea of a universal pragmatics.
4. The reconstruction of historical materialism
5. The theory of communicative action
6. The critical theory of system and lifeworld.
7. The idea of discourse ethics.
8. Habermas’s model of deliberative democracy
9. The idea of a post-metaphysical philosophy
10. The idea of a post-secular society
11. Habermas’s critique of post-modernism.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity	22	11 x 2 hour weekly seminars
Guided Independent study	44	Reading and preparation for weekly seminar analysis and discussion on the core texts
Guided Independent Study	36	Preparation for Assigned Essays
Guided Independent Study	48	Reading materials to supplement and contextualise the core texts

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).