City Lit Advanced Philosophy

I was a student at City Lit for two years. The first course I did was Existentialism; a ten week course for 1 hour every week taken by the writer Tim Lebon, who is an existential psychotherapist. He had a terrible struggle with the subject, as he could not stand it or my constant questioning, as it meant nothing to me. The focus for this on this course was on Sartre and his Being and Nothingness. For some reason he may deny he took to class.

I also did a six hour taster course on existential psychotherapy with the same writer, and it was a one day course. This was attended by Social Workers and the like, and it went smoothly. He admits he took this class.

The next course was cancelled. It was a course on Martin Heidegger. Starting in late in November 1994 with Being and Time, it was a most mind boggling course I have been on. Said by some to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th Century, they are not kidding. The course taken by Pamela Jenecks has been so informative, it was astonishing. Reading Being and Time is like reading a book that puts you in touch with yourself. Others on the course were baffled. Most seemed to be teachers or presently employed church people and the like. It was then a very political course, with the teachers making sure they covered their backs all the way as, Heidegger is not complementary of them revelling in many of the problems inherent in 21st Century society, which they deny explicitly to be problems.

I have yet to decide what to study next however, as Heidegger has been cancelled. The City Lit offers such a wide range of courses, you are bound to find something of interest to you.