PHIL/MUSC 1012 Philosophy of Music
Please refer to Music for the course description. ART PHL (P. Hamlin, K. Khalifa)
PHIL/LITP 1063 Philosophy and Literature
In this intensive reading class, we will explore the boundary that both separates and joins philosophy and literature. How has literature evoked philosophical problems, and how have philosophers interpreted such works? How do we draw philosophical meaning from a fictional world? How do we read philosophical and literary texts differently? We will focus on philosophical interpretations of shorter fictional works, primarily European, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include: style and rhetoric; author and reader; time and temporality; mood and emotion; existence and mortality. Literary readings selected from Borges, Calvino, Conrad, Joyce, Kafka, Melville, Tolstoy, and Woolf. Philosophical readings selected from Bergson, Danto, Gadamer, Freud, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Nehamas, Nussbaum, and Sartre. LIT PHL EUR (M. Woodruff)
Limit on Enrollment: 18