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zen_monk It's been about two weeks since I've been at home from Santa Cruz.
Summer Session meant reading a lot of existential/nihilism reading for five weeks and then another five weeks talking all about translation theory. In comparison to a normal quarter (where one consist of 10 weeks for one class), I gotta say that I really think my summer teachers know how to pace themselves to teach the core concepts of the material in comparison to typical lags and rush that happens in order to catch up to the syllabus.
I really gotta recommend contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo, who helps clarify the role of technology in the world and how we are participants format our reality through them as opposed to the old way of thinking technology as being tools for our manipulation of the world. I guess that means I would recommend Heidegger since that who he's based off of, but he's pretty heavy to read, and it also makes the reader confront the issue of studying a man who joined the Nazi party back in the 1930s in order to lead a new philosophy.... only to then be shafted himself after a couple years but he has since been referred throughout that party's ideology.
But Translation Theory turned out to be a very enjoyable class, since group work actually got to be enjoyable and the class itself having no shortage of engaging classmates. I also respected the teacher for bringing out neo-colonialist readings where we get to read more Latin American and South American intellectuals who have written about the nature of translation and culture in the mindset of the colonized peoples and also through the colonizers.
Though I guess I can't say that I was the kind of good student as I was during the first five weeks at my philosophy class, hehe.
Summer Session meant reading a lot of existential/nihilism reading for five weeks and then another five weeks talking all about translation theory. In comparison to a normal quarter (where one consist of 10 weeks for one class), I gotta say that I really think my summer teachers know how to pace themselves to teach the core concepts of the material in comparison to typical lags and rush that happens in order to catch up to the syllabus.
I really gotta recommend contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo, who helps clarify the role of technology in the world and how we are participants format our reality through them as opposed to the old way of thinking technology as being tools for our manipulation of the world. I guess that means I would recommend Heidegger since that who he's based off of, but he's pretty heavy to read, and it also makes the reader confront the issue of studying a man who joined the Nazi party back in the 1930s in order to lead a new philosophy.... only to then be shafted himself after a couple years but he has since been referred throughout that party's ideology.
But Translation Theory turned out to be a very enjoyable class, since group work actually got to be enjoyable and the class itself having no shortage of engaging classmates. I also respected the teacher for bringing out neo-colonialist readings where we get to read more Latin American and South American intellectuals who have written about the nature of translation and culture in the mindset of the colonized peoples and also through the colonizers.
Though I guess I can't say that I was the kind of good student as I was during the first five weeks at my philosophy class, hehe.
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