LITS3303 / LITS6001 MODERN CRITICAL THEORY 2007-2008

MODULE TWO: PHENOMENOLOGY / EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY / HERMENEUTICS

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WEEK : NINETEENTH CENTURY EXISTENTIALISM
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• Soren Kierkegaard "From Concluding Unscientific Postscript" [1846] () [FOLDER]

• Friedrich Nietzsche "On Truth and Lies in a non-Moral Sense" [1873] (pp. 874-884 in Leitch; pp. 634-639 in Adams)

RECOMMENDED READINGS

• TBA

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Nineteenth Century Existentialism:
  • Kierkegaard
  • Nietzsche

WEEK : FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY
 

• Edmund Husserl "Phenomenology" [1927] (pp. 658-664 in Adams and Searle; pp. 15-22 in Kearney)

• Martin Heidegger Being and Time [1927] (pp. 27-52 in Kearney; pp. 107-122 in McNeill and Feldman) [FOLDER]

• Kearney, Richard.  "Edmund Husserl."  Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994. 12-27.
• Kearney, Richard.  "Martin Heidegger."  Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.  28-50.

• Phenomenology:
  • Husserl
• Existential Phenomenology:
  • Heidegger

WEEK : EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY / PHENOMENOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS
 

• Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism and Humanism [1946] (pp. 65-76 in Kearney)
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception [1945]: Preface [FOLDER]

• Hans-Georg Gadamer Truth and Method [1960] [FOLDER]

• Kearney, Richard.  "Jean-Paul Sartre."  Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.  51-72.
• Kearney, Richard.  "Maurice Merleau-Ponty."  Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.  73-90.
• Palmer, Richard E.  "Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics."  Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1979.  194-217.
• Palmer, Richard E.  "Gadamer's Critique of Modern Aesthetic and Historical Consciousness."  Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1979.  162-193.

• Existential Phenomenology:
  • Sartre
  • Merleau-Ponty
• Phenomenological Hermeneutics:
  • Gadamer

WEEK : PHENOMENOLOGICAL, EXISTENTIALIST AND HERMENEUTICAL LITERARY THEORY
 

• Jean-Paul Sartre "Why Write?" [1948] (pp. 984-992 in Adams; also pp. 1136-1349 in Leitch)

• Georges Poulet "The Phenomenology of Reading" [1966] (pp. 1147-1154 in Adams; also pp. 1320-1332 in Leitch) [sometimes called "Criticism and the Experience of Interiority"]

• Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an Introduction: "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory"
• Robert Holub "Phenomenology" (pp. in Vol. 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism, ed. Raman Selden)

• Phenomenological, Existential and Hermeneutical Literary Theory:
  • Sartre
  • Poulet

WEEK : PHENOMENOLOGICAL, EXISTENTIALIST AND HERMENEUTICAL LITERARY THEORY CONTNUED
 

• Hans Robert Jauss "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory" [1967] (pp. 1550-1564 in Leitch) [essays on JSTOR are accessible through a UWI computer only]

• Wolfgang Iser "The Reading Process: a Phenomenological Approach" [1972] (another very similar essay by Iser entitled "Interaction Between Text and Reader" is found on pp. 1673-1682 in Leitch)[FOLDER]

• Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an Introduction: "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory"
• Robert Holub "Phenomenology" (pp. in Vol. 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism, ed. Raman Selden)

• Phenomenological, Existential and Hermeneutical Literary Theory:
  • Jauss
  • Iser

WEEK : PHENOMENOLOGICAL, EXISTENTIAL AND HERMENEUTICAL POST-COLONIAL THEORY
 

• Frantz Fanon [all excerpts below found in FOLDER]
  • Black Skin White Masks [1952]:
    • Ch. 1: "The Negro and Language"
    • Ch. 5: "The Fact of Blackness"
    • Ch. 7: "The Negro and Recognition"
  • The Wretched of the Earth [1961]:
    • Ch. 1: "Concerning Violence"

• George Lamming "The Negro Writer and his World" [1956] [FOLDER]
• Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth [1961]: Ch. 4: "On National Culture" [FOLDER]
• Abdul JanMohamed "The Economy of Manichean Allegory: the Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature" [1986] (pp. 78-106 in 'Race,' Writing and Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates) [FOLDER]

• TBA

• Phenomenological / Existentialist / Hermeneutical Post-colonial Theory:
  • James
  • Fanon
  • Lamming

FOOTNOTES