A study of the works in the existential and/or phenomenological traditions, from the 19th century on. Thinkers studied will include at least some of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, and more contemporary thinkers like Judith Butler. Not open to students who have received credit for PHIL 335.