Philosophy and Literature

elective seminars
general courses

Seminar is dedicated for students who are interested in philosophy, theory of literature and hermeneutics. Students should be abble to read and understand philosophical texts which will be considered during the course.

Classroom

The subject of the course is placed between philosophy, hermeneutics and theory of literature. The aim is not only studies philosophical aspects of theory of literature but also presentation philosophical analysis of some literary arts (F. Kafka, F. Ponge, H. Melville, I. Calvino, Basho, V. Wolf…)

We ask the questions: What is literature? What are relation between literary fiction, possibility worlds and reality? We are interested also in such a problems as: materiality of literary art, experience of singularity of literary art, experience of otherness. We will analysis relations between author, work, and reader.

The subject of the course is placed between philosophy, hermeneutics and theory of literature. The aim is not only studies philosophical aspects of theory of literature but also presentation philosophical analysis of some literary arts (F. Kafka, F. Ponge, H. Melville, I. Calvino, Basho, V. Wolf…)

We ask the questions: What is literature? What are relation between literary fiction, possibility worlds and reality? We are interested also in such a problems as: materiality of literary art, experience of singularity of literary art, experience of otherness. We will analysis relations between author, work, and reader.

Exemplary topics:

„This strange institution called 'literature'” (J. Derida)- Philosophy and Literature

The Singularity of Literaturę

The Autobiography – Oneself as Another.

The Materiality of Literary art – diary, manuscript, draft and digital record.

The Literature and Death.

The Literature and War.

The Presence of Things in Literature.

„The Invisible Cities” – signs, and beetwen signs.

The Melancholy and Dream. – Rousseau and Sebald

The Uncertain Modernity – Baudelaire, Benjamin.

Adorno, O literaturze. Wybór esejów, Warszawa 2005.

G. Agamben, Bartleby, czyli o przypadkowości, w: H. Melville, „Kopista Bartleby. Historia z Wall Street, Warszawa 2009.

D. Attridge, Jednostkowość literatury, Universitas, Kraków

R. Barthes, Od nauki do literatury, w: tegoż, „Mit i znak”, Warszawa 1970.

W. Benjamin, Rozpakowuję swoją bibliotekę, w: tegoż, „Krytyka i narracja. Pisma o literaturze”, Warszawa 2018.

M. Blanchot, Przestrzeń literacka, PWN, Warszawa

M. Blanchot, Literatura i prawo do śmierci, w: „Literatura na świecie”

E. Bloch, Ślady, Kraków 2012.

M. Beaujour, Autobiografia i autoportret, w: „Autobiografia”, red. M. Czernińska, Gdańsk 2009

P. M. de Biasi, Genetyka tekstów, Warszawa 2015;

I. Calvino, Francis Ponge, w: „Literatura na świecie”, nr. 9-10/2006.

R. Calasso, Pawilon Baudelaire’a, Warszawa 2017.

G. Deleuze, Bartleby albo formuła, w: H. Melville, „Kopista Bartleby. Historia z Wall Street, Warszawa 2009.

G. Deleuze, Literatura i życie, w: tegoż: „Krytyka i klinika”, Łódź 2016.

J. Derrida, D. Attridge, Ta dziwna instytucja zwana literaturą, w: „Dekonstrukcja w badaniach literackich”, red. R. Nycz, Gdańsk 2000.

J. Derrida, Signéponge-Signsponge, Columbia UP 1984.

J. Derrida, Przed prawem, w: „Literatura na świecie”

E. Freedgood, Idee w rzeczach. Ulotne znaczenie powieści wiktoriańskich, Warszawa 2017.

P. Lejeune, „Drogi zeszycie…”, „drogi ekranie…” O dziennikach osobistych, Warszawa 2010;

E. Levinas, Spojrzenie poety, w: „Literatura na świecie”,

P. de Man, Opór wobec teorii, w: „Dekonstrukcja w badaniach literackich”, red. R. Nycz, Gdańsk 2000.

P. de Man, Autobiografia jako od-twarzanie, w: „Dekonstrukcja w badaniach literackich”, red. R. Nycz, Gdańsk 2000.

M. Perloff, Ostrze ironii. Modernizm w cieniu monarchii habsburskiej, Wrocław 2018.

F. Ponge, My Creative Method, w: „Literatura na świecie”, nr. 9-10/2006.

F. Ponge, Po stronie rzeczy, w: „Literatura na świecie”, nr. 9-10/2006.

J.J Rousseau, Przechadzki samotnego marzyciela, Warszawa 1967.

J. P. Sartre, Człowiek i rzeczy, w: „Literatura na świecie”, nr. 9-10/2006.

W. G. Sebald, Opis nieszczęścia. Eseje o literaturze, Wrocław 2019.

Knowledge:

student knows and understands:

- to a high degree – research and interpretation methods of philosophical texts.

- some philosophical positions in contemporary aesthetics.

- to a high degree – relations between philosophical ideas and culture.

Skills:

student is able to:

- interpret philosophical texts and compare theses from various sources.

- find relationships between philosophical ideas and social and culture processes.

Socials skills:

student is able to:

- take part in social and culture live.

Activity and presentation

Permissible number of absences: 2