Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2026H1F L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL484H1F L0101
Topics in Political Thought I
Nietzche's Heirs
Themes
The seminar will examine the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and his intellectual-political legacy. The course will focus on Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, but will also look at Sigmund Freud and Max Weber.
Texts
Nietzsche,Untimely Meditations; Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Nine; Heideger, “Letter on Humanism”; Heidegger, “Being towards Death” section of Being and Time.
Format and Requirements
We will start with 6 or so lectures given by Prof Beiner. The rest of the course will feature seminar presentations by students.
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...