PHIL 4000 - Philosophy Through Literature

3 unit(s)

Examination of philosophical issues and themes that emerge in literature. Philosophical analysis will focus on such topics as ethical constructions and justice; selfhood and personal identity; memory and forgetting; desire and knowledge; the work of imagination; sexuality and embodiment; Eros and death; meaning and existence; the relation of truth and fiction; freedom, fatalism, and determinism; and the relations between self, world, language, and politics.

Satisfies G.E. area UD-C. Upper Division G.E. courses are designed to be taken after upper-division status (completion of 60 semester units) is attained.

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