LITS3303 2008 - 2009

MODULE THREE: PHENOMENOLOGY / EXISTENTIALISM / HERMENEUTICS

See the Amended Schedule instead of this one.
 

WEEK TEN: (EXISTENTIAL) PHENOMENOLOGY
(Week of November 3)
 

• Edmund Husserl Phenomenology [1927] (pp. 658-664 in Adams and Searle)

• 10A Husserl "Phenomenology"

• Martin Heidegger Being and Time [1927]: Selections [FOLDER]

• 10B Heidegger Being and Time [TBA]

• 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 / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:
  • Husserl
  • Heidegger

WEEK ELEVEN: EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY / HERMENEUTICS
(Week of November 10)
 

• Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Being and Nothingness [1943]: Selections (pp. 280-317 in Mark C. Taylor, ed. Deconstruction in Context)

  • Existentialism and Humanism [1946]

• 11A Sartre Selections from Being and Nothingness [TBA]
• 11B Sartre Existentialism and Humanism

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception [1945]: Preface
• Hans-Georg Gadamer Truth and Method [1960]: Selections (pp. 840-854 in Adams and Searle)

• 11C Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception [TBA]
• 11D Gadamer Truth and Method [TBA]

• 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" and "Gadamer's Critique of Modern Aesthetic and Historical Consciousness."  Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1979.  194-217 and 162-193.

• Sartre

• Merleau-Ponty

• Gadamer

WEEK TWELVE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL LITERARY THEORY
(Week of November 17)
 

• Jean-Paul Sartre "Why Write?" [1948] (pp. 984-992 in Adams; also pp. 1136-1349 in Leitch)
• Georges Poulet "Penomenology of Reading" [1969] (pp. 1147-1154 in Adams; also pp. 1320-1332 in Leitch)

• Hans Robert Jauss "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory" [1967] (pp. 1550-1564 in Leitch; pp. 164-184 in Adams and Searle)
• Wolfgang Iser "The Reading Process: a Phenomenological Approach" [1972] (pp. 274-294 in The Implied Reader)

• Freund, Elizabeth.  The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Criticism.  London: Methuen, 1987.
• Holub, Robert C.  Reception Theory: a Critical Introduction.  London: Methuen, 1984.

• Poulet
• Jauss
• Iser

WEEK 13: PHENOMENOLOGICAL POST-COLONIAL THEORY
(Week of November 24)
 

• Frantz Fanon
  • 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"
    • Ch. 4: "On National Culture" (pp. 1587-1593 in Leitch)

• George Lamming "The Negro Writer and his World" [1956] (pp. 35-44 in his Essays, Addresses and Interviews, ed. Andaiye and Richard Drayton, et al.)

• Gordon, Lewis.  "Introduction."  Existence in Black: an Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.  1-9.

• Henry, Paget.  "African and Afro-Caribbean Existential Philosophies."  Existence in Black: an Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.  13-36.

• Post-colonial Theory: Phenomenological Post-colonial Theory:
  • Fanon
  • Lamming

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