The main focus will be on guided independent study within a tightly structured framework, starting from reading and research materials supplied. Week by week you will work through self-instructional course materials ('lectures' and associated files, delivered via blackboard), which provide the framework and focus for reading key texts, and undertaking the specific tasks set. This work will be undertaken on an individual basis, but you will be expected regularly to interact with fellow students, and tutors, or guest lecturers through the discussion forum. The time spent reading supplied 'lectures' and contributing to the discussion forum will likely be 36 hours over the course of the term. The module will run over 16 weeks; 12 weeks of guided instruction and discussion, plus 4 weeks to complete assessments.

A computer with internet connection for accessing Blackboard..
Course texts and course learning pack
Library resources including books, journals, data bases cd-rom, websites, ejournals, ebrary and other electronic resources.
IT facilities including word processing.

Miguel de Beistegui, Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology (Indiana University Press, 2004). Available via Library as an ebook.
Tina Chanter, Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford university Press, 2001).
Claire Colebrook ,Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 2002).
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Wiley, Blackwell, 1978).
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, translated by Joan Stambaugh (SUNY Press, 2010).
Luce Irigaray, The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger (University of Texas Press, 1999).
Dermot Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology (Routldege, 1999). Available via Library as an ebook.
Emmanuel Levinas, Basic Philosophical Texts. Ed. Adriaan T Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi (Indiana University Press, 1996).
Gilles Deleuze, The Deleuze Reader, ed. C Boundas (Columbia University Press, 1993).

These indicate the range of texts the module might cover. This is not meant to be a recommended or required book list. Please consult the module tutor for required books.

Phenomenology was introduced into modern philosophy by Edmund Husserl, and then developed by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas. The module will trace the link between phenomenology as a method and the importance of ontology in 20th Century philosophy, a link established above all by Heidegger. Perspectives critical of Heidegger's ontology will then be examined; e.g. those developed by Emmanuel Levinas and Gilles Deleuze.

An Online Discussion Contribution, including an element directed towards preparation for the essay, weighted at 30%.
- Participation (30%) You are required to participate in and contribute substantially to the discussion forum, in most weeks of the teaching cycle. Approximately 2000 words. (learning outcomes 1- 4).

An ESSAY length 5000 WORDS weighted at 70%.
- 1 x 5000 word essay (70%) The essay will require you to show your overall appreciation of the concerns of the module. It will enable you to demonstrate your comprehensive understanding of the module and your flexibility in applying your knowledge to specific concerns. (learning outcomes 1-4).