FYS 109 Art of Walking
This course consists of morning discussions of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927) and of afternoon walks on sidewalks and trails in Central Kentucky. The first half of Being and Time gives humanity a new name--"Dasein"--and stresses the everyday experience of this being. Topics include the use of tools, group behavior and language. The second half re-reads Dasein's everydayness in starker terms of death, authenticity and time. Heidegger declares that we are not at home in the world. The course walks offer a first-hand experience of these themes and an opportunity to discuss or contest them non-frontally.