Course Lecture Titles 1. The Axial Model 2. Kants Hopeful Program 3. The Kantian Legacy 4. Kant and the Romantic Reaction 5. Hegel on the Human Spirit 6. Hegel on State and Society 7. Hegel on Selfhood and Human Identity 8. Schopenhauers Pessimism 9. Schopenhauers Remedies 10. Alienation in Marx 11. Marxs Utopian Hope 12. Kierkegaards Crises 13. Kierkegaards Passion 14. Why God DiedNietzsches Claim 15. Nietzsches Dream 16. Freuds Nightmare 17. Freud on Our Origins 18. Psychoanalytic Visions in and after Freud 19. Heidegger on the Meaning of Meaning 20. Heidegger on Technologys Threat 21. Heideggers Politics and Legacy 22. The Human SituationSartre and Camus 23. Power and ReasonFoucault and Habermas 24. Todays Provocative LandscapeThresholding