Philosophy 321 - Myth,Metaphor,and the Poetics of Cognition:Issues in the Philosophy of Literature

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Colgate University

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Staff The literary creator wields the power of language to construct fictions that unfold a completeness of experience enviable to objectivists and relativists alike. Literature shapes what philosophers long for: a glance at a truth so profound that regardless of how much it challenges or aligns itself with perceptual experience, it is capable of provoking the soul's assent. The power of literature, therefore, supersedes the power of logical argumentation. Yet, what is it that the reader of literature comes to know What reality does the reader experience To what does the reader assent This course considers these questions and examines the validity of the traditional boundaries that have sought to separate literature from philosophy, fiction from truth. Through the reading of critical and fictional texts, students wrestle with the problem of knowledge as this problem is enacted in the linguistic commitment to beauty and completeness embodied in the narratives of Edgar Allan Poe, Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Italo Calvino.

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3.00

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www.colgate.edu

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(315) 228-1000

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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