Explore key ideas of the unconscious through powerful Romantic and Modernist texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including works by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and more.

Delve into Heidegger’s radical ideas on existence, time, language, technology and truth. Through Being and Time, examine how his phenomenology reshapes our understanding of self, others and the modern world—and what it means to truly live.

Examine philosophy’s enduring engagement with art, from Plato and Aristotle to Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx and Postmodernism. Explore how art shapes emotion, society and imagination, and its power to critique, transform and redefine human life.

Explore the drama of human existence in this beginner course on Existentialism. Examine themes of freedom, angst, authenticity, the absurd and the search for meaning, while considering their relevance to contemporary life and personal choices.

Examine the philosophical and historical roots of democracy in this course. Explore its emergence, ideals, challenges and links to capitalism, while considering whether democracy is truly in crisis and what alternatives might exist today.

Explore the philosophy of consciousness through neuroscience, quantum theory, and creativity. Examine leading theories, metacognition, and the binding problem to understand how the brain produces self, reality, and awareness.

Examine Epicureanism and Stoicism as lived philosophies of life. Explore ideas of pleasure, fear, friendship, justice and inner tranquillity through the works of Epicurus, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, and their influence on modern thought.