Kurt Brandhorst

Assistant Professor

Thinking

Kurt has been teaching as long as he can remember and cannot imagine doing anything else. Vocations are like that. He has been peripatetic --- having taught in eight universities over the years --- and also paces while he teaches. Since 2012 he has taught a number of different courses in the department. He likes to think of himself as a widget that can serve whatever teaching needs might arise. He knows that this widgetness is technically only a regulative idea, however.

Courses Taught

PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy

HNR 130: Conceptions of Self

PHIL 156: What is Art?

PHIL 253: Philosophy and Literature (Fall 25)

PHIL 324: Modern Western Political Theory

PHIL 325: Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought

PHIL 327: Contemporary Western Political Theory (Fall 25)

PHIL 329: Philosophy after Auschwitz

PHIL 335: 19^th Century Philosophy

PHIL 336: Twentieth Century Continental Thought: Existentialism

PHIL 339: Recent Continental Philosophy (Fall 25)

PHIL 345: Topics in the Philosophy of Technology

PHIL 356: Philosophy of Art

PHIL 398: Philosophy After Auschwitz: Art, Museums, and Memorialization (Study Abroad) (Summer 25)

PHIL 425: Derrida and Language (Directed Reading)

PHIL 425: Biopolitics (Directed Reading)

PHIL 425: Heidegger & Irigaray: Ontological Difference (Directed Reading)

PHIL 425: Schopenhauer (Directed Reading)

PHIL 425: Existential Literature (Directed Reading)

Education

Kurt has been educated but do not hold that against him. He is striving to overcome this.