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For Philosophy: Practice, Form, and Genre and Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities
PHIL 375: Philosophy and Literature University of British Columbia Don Beith Fall 2015
This course serves as the Core Seminar for the PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. It introduces students to a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy with literary and arts criticism. In this year's installment of the seminar, we will focus on issues about the role of narrative in emotion and self-understanding, about narrative as a mediator between solitude and community, and about narratives and philosophies of hope and despair. The seminar is intended for graduate students. It is suitable for theoretically ambitious students of literature and the arts, philosophers with interests in value theory, aesthetics, and topics in language and mind, and other students with strong interest in the psychological importance of engagement with the arts.
Literature – Literary Studies – Philosophy: Problems of Relation, Languages, and Communication
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Díaz, Camilo. (2021). Where are the Sound Alternations in 2021? In Özgür Öztürk (Ed.), Studies in Humanities Conference Proceedings (pp. 9-17). Istambul: Dakam Books.
THIS IS AN ARGUMENT for the possibility of literary humanities: a literary version of humanities as well as humanities that look at literature for the human person to assert his or her selfhood. I am not merely speaking for the human aspect within the discourse of humanities but rather intend to show how the idea of the human is fundamentally rooted in a poetic sensibility that breaks through social and political barriers. Literary writing enables and sustains the possibility of the human in the face of violence unleashed by a culture industry rooted in global consumerism. Literary humanities, I believe, forms the ethical basis to rethink the role that humanities can, do, and will play in bringing about transformation. This paper also argues that scientific and technological knowledge is a cynical enterprise without literature, which plays a vital role in raising questions related to the future of humankind. Literary writing forms the basis to articulating how we think about literary humanities. Writers who use literary language specialize in the art of looking at truth from the perspective of illusion. In the process of using an illusion to depict reality, they politicize writing by portraying societies not as static entities but dynamic forces constantly in motion. Such politicization happens through an insight into the illusory and fluid character of social reality. My paper argues for literary humanities as the meta-language in which the humanities speak of and for themselves, enabling the possibility of a human person that defies any simple generalization based on external parameters.
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Harold Pinter defined the absurdist idea high-quality in his 1962’s speech - “Writing for the Theatre”, which changed into provided on the National Student Drama Festival in Bristol, in which he said, “I propose that there may be no difficult differences among what's actual and what's unreal, nor among what's authentic and what's false.” The drama that I, consequently, opted right here is Waiting for Godot (1953), which displays the dream like, lyrical, surreal functions distinguished of the Absurdist Theatre and which honestly suggests a deeper which means; however, that is in no way completely defined. Absurdism is a perception that a look for which means is inherently in war with the real loss of which means, however one has to each receive this and concurrently riot in opposition to it with the aid of using embracing what existence has to offer. Absurdism is the belief of contradiction among things, a tensional pressure pulling every from the alternative sides, as Albert Camus defined in The Myth of Sisyphus- “The absurdist born out of this war of words among the human want and the unreasonable silence of the world.” Beckett in his play Waiting for Godot, has attempted to offer a correlation among being seeing and existing, in which the individual expressed their primary preference for reputation via their obsession with being seen. The character’s lifestyles are consequently a made of the regular fracas among the dearth of which means and but a look for it, the want of fact but the lifestyles of lies. My paper would therefore try to present how this thin line of tension between truth and lies reverberates, where the tramps search for the ‘purpose’ of their lives, the reason of their existence, becomes a rotational and chaotic process in this play.
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