MA in Modern European Philosophy
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 8,770 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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** home full-time: £8,770 | international full-time: £15,800
Introduction
Why choose this course?
This course offers a structured study of 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, closely interpreting and analysing foundational texts. Four taught modules are followed by a dissertation on a topic of your choice.
Particular attention is given to Kant and Hegel, and subsequent philosophical developments in Germany and France.
The course approaches Kant's critical philosophy as a basis for understanding European philosophy as a whole. Other major authors include Marx, Nietzsche, Deleuze, Badiou, Agamben, Butler, and many others. There is also a wide range of optional modules.
Reasons to choose Kingston University
- The course is based at the UK's Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, where you will be part of a supportive postgraduate community.
- You will be able to participate in research events with international speakers and have easy access to London's research libraries and events.
- There are high levels of staff-student contact, including individual tutorials from versatile and internationally recognised teaching staff with a wide range of interests, projects and publications.
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Funding and bursaries
Applicants to any of the CRMEP MA programmes will be considered automatically for one of two prize scholarships, so long as they apply before the end of April in any given academic year. These scholarships are worth £5,000 each and is awarded as a partial fee waiver.
All applicants are also welcome to apply for one of Kingston's Annual Fund scholarships, worth £3,000. International students can also apply for an International Scholarship, worth £2,000.
Curriculum
What you will study
This course engages in-depth with fundamental texts in modern European philosophy, including Kant, Hegel and Marx through to contemporary thinkers more recently.
Comprising four taught modules and a dissertation on a topic of your choice, you'll have the opportunity to study 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy in a structured way, concentrating on the interpretation and analysis of key texts, and on the legacy of foundational figures in the field.
You can choose from a wide range of module options, balanced by a shared central core of texts, concepts and problems.
You'll take one core taught module worth 30 credits, and then choose three other 30-credit modules from a range of options, before preparing the 15,000-word dissertation (worth 60 credits).
Modules
You will pay particular attention to the influence of Kant's philosophy and to the debates that structured the development of post-Kantian philosophy in both Germany and France.
Core modules
- Kant and his Legacy
- Philosophy Dissertation
Optional modules (The optional modules vary from year to year.)
- Art Theory: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Contemporary
- Contemporary European Philosophies
- Critique, Practice, Power
- German Critical Theory
- Hegel and his Legacy
- Kant and the Aesthetic Tradition
- Nietzsche and Heidegger
- Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
- Plasticity and Form
- Political Philosophy
- Recent French Philosophy
- Recent Italian Philosophy
- Topics in Modern European Philosophy
Optional placement year
Many postgraduate courses at Kingston University allow students to do a 12-month work placement as part of their course. The responsibility for finding the work placement is with the student; we cannot guarantee the work placement, just the opportunity to undertake it. As the work placement is an assessed part of the course, it is covered by a student's Student Route visa.
Please note
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.
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Career Opportunities
After you graduate
Our graduates often progress to research degrees in European philosophy and critical theory, or to careers in media/journalism, publishing, the arts, education, and public policy.
A sampling of graduate destinations for alumni of the MA in Modern European Philosophy include:
- Andrew Bevan (MA 2015) began a PhD at CRMEP in the autumn of 2015 having been awarded a TECHNE-AHRC Consortium Studentship.
- Charlie Clarke (MA 2014) is a trainee at the Philosophy Foundation.
- Alex Ressel (MA 2014) is an associate artist at Open School East.
- Daniel Nemenyi (MA 2013) was awarded a 3-year PhD AHRC Studentship by the TECHNE consortium, to work on 'What is the Internet? An Ontological Investigation' in the CRMEP.
- Steve Howard (MA 2013) won an AHRC Studentship for a PhD in the CRMEP on Kant, force and dynamism.
- Jussi Palmusaari (MA 2012) won a scholarship for a PhD in the CRMEP on Althusser and Rancière. He is co-translating Carl Schmitt's Der Begriff des Politischen into Finnish.
- Vangeesa Sumanasekara (MA 2012) is working as a visiting lecturer at the universities of Kelaniya and Sri Jayawardenapura, in Sri Lanka. Earlier in 2013, he had formed, with a group of others, 'Philosophy and the Arts Collective' (PAC), an organisation devoted to promoting philosophy in Sri Lanka. He has translated Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude into Sinhala and is currently working on a translation of Catherine Malabou's Ontology of the Accident.