Academic Catalog

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.