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Nov 23, 2024
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Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] See drop-down menu above to access other catalogs.
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PHIL 246 - Existentialism and Literature(3 credits)
Prerequisite: One 100-level three-credit course in philosophy or CRIT 111
The 20th century philosophical school Existentialism is famous not only for its central philosophical concepts and arguments expressed in philosophical prose, but also for its expression through fictional narratives. This course examines the philosophy of Existentialism as demonstrated through literary works which highlight the existential themes of angst, despair, nihilism, alienation, the Other, the crowd, freedom, responsibility, bad faith and authenticity. We will analyze these ideas as demonstrated through the plays, novellas and novels composed by famous existential philosophers, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel, Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. We will further explore other literary figures who reflect the existential tradition in philosophy, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Maria Luisa Bombal, Luis Borges, Cormac McCarthy and David Foster Wallace. Students will be expected to submit weekly “philosophical journal entries” concerning the readings and complete two 6-8 page papers, each of which involves philosophical analysis of the literary works examined in the course. Offered alternate years. (CHUM; CWRT)
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