PHIL548 TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
Course Code: |
2410548 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
Department: |
Philosophy |
Language of Instruction: |
English |
Level of Study: |
Graduate |
Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. ÞEREF HALÝL TURAN |
Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
How can we understand language in general? What is distinctive about the language of literature? Some major statements on language and literature in twentieth-century thought; the central role of Kafka for that thought; thought expressed in philosophy and in literature; the influential concept of a `minor` literature; philisophical writers, e.g. Rilke, Beckett.