To be able to understand, elaborate and discuss the main concepts and problematics of Western philosophy within the historical perspective of literature. Also, to be able to discuss the philosophical problems which literature concretizes throughout history.
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
None
Instructor(s)
Lecturer Didem Nur Güngören Erol
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
This course is not offered this semester
Office Hour(s)
This course is not offered this semester
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture and discussion.
Principle Sources
A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell, A New History of Western Philosophy, A. Kenny.
Other Sources
Selected literary texts: From The Odyssey, Decameron, Gargantua, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe and from works of Goethe, Proust etc.
in comparison with selected philosophical texts as,
Principles of Philosophy, Descartes, Critique of Pure Raison, I. Kant, Aesthetics, G.W.F. Hegel,The World as Will an Representation, A. Schopenhauer, Theory of the Novel, G. Lukacs,Dialectic of Enlightment, T.W. Adorno-M. Horkheimer, Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, E. Husserl, Matter and Memory, H. Bergson, Phenomenology of Perception, M. Merleau-Ponty,Being and Time, M. Heidegger, The Origin of Work of Art, M. Heidegger, Being and Nothingness, J.P. Sartre, The Order of Things, M. Foucault, Of Grammatology, J. Derrida.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction
Lecture and discussion
2. Week
On main problems of philosophy: Antiquity and literature
Lecture and discussion
3. Week
On main problems of philosophy: Middle Ages and Renaissance
Lecture and discussion
4. Week
Pre-modernism and enlightenment: Human centered philosophy and literature
Lecture and discussion
5. Week
Modern philosophy: Kant and Hegel, and literary transformations
Lecture and discussion
6. Week
German idealism and German Romantics: Schiller, Nietzsche ve Schopenhauer
Lecture and discussion
7. Week
Marxism and literature: From Marx to Lukacs and Frankfurt School
Lecture and discussion
8. Week
Midterm exams week
9. Week
Phenomenology and its opposition to classical philosophy: Heidegger and Husserl, from transcendence to perception
Lecture and discussion
10. Week
Contemporary philosophy: Bergson and Merleau-Ponty, around the concepts of time, body and memory
Lecture and discussion
11. Week
Existentialism and “engaged” literature: Sartre and literature’s philosophical mission
Lecture and discussion
12. Week
Propositions of Contemporary Philosophy: Between language and object the literary act
Lecture and discussion
13. Week
Propositions of Contemporary Philosophy: Structuralism and post-structuralism
Lecture and discussion
14. Week
Closing arguments: Do philosophy guides literature or vice-versa? / How do literature “reason”?
Lecture and discussion
15. Week
Final exams week
16. Week
Final exams week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
35
Attendance
90
15
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Show knowledge of a substantial range of authors, movements and texts from different periods of literary history.
PO-2
Identify the intellectual, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature
is written and read.
PO-3
Employ the necessary skills in the reading, analysis and in appreciation of literature.
PO-4
Recognize, interpret, and comment on rhetorical and figurative language.
PO-5
Identify, distinguish between and assess the distinctive characteristics of texts written in the principle literary genres.
PO-6
Recall and define key terms and concepts relating to language, literature and/or culture.
PO-7
Recognize the role of different social and cultural contexts in affecting meaning.
PO-8
Demonstrate responsiveness to the central role of language in the creation of meaning.
PO-9
Recognize different structures and discourse functions of the English language.
PO-10
Display competence both in written and/or oral expression and in the
communication of ideas in a variety of contexts.
PO-11
Demonstrate critical skills in the close reading, description, interpretation,
and analysis of literary and non-literary texts.
PO-12
Use logical thought, critical reasoning, and rhetorical skills to effectively
construct arguments.
PO-13
Apply guided research skills including the ability to gather, sift, organize and
present information and material.
PO-14
Show competence in planning, preparation and revision of essays,
presentations, and other written and project work.
PO-15
Reflect on ethical and philosophical issues raised in literary, critical, and
cultural texts.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Learn why and how the philosophers of Western tradition needed to conceptualize the notions like the subject, the object, the nature, the knowledge, the transcendence, the body, the freedom etc. by different approaches along the history;
LO-2
Read the main texts of Western philosophy thoroughly;
LO-3
Be acquainted with the profound relation between philosophy and literature;
LO-4
Be familiar with how philosophical transformations shaped the literature by altering its narrative forms, styles, subjects;
LO-5
To be able to discuss the possibility of the literature’s pre-domination of the philosophical approaches even before the philosophy concretizes them.
