01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW
David J. King Hall 2053
Section Information for Fall 2017
Philosophy and Literature: Problems of Text and Authority.
This section of the course will examine the peculiar problems of text and authority presented by fictive literature. Is it possible to say of a text that it is both fictional and true? What is the relation between the author of a text and the text itself? What is ‘écriture feminine’? And most importantly: what can the study of language in literature tell us about language, truth and meaning in general?
We will be reading works by a variety of thinkers and writers many of whom blur the line between literature and philosophy. Representative authors: Barthes, Borges, Cixous, Freud, O’Brien, Lispector, Nietzsche and Plato.
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Credits: 3
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