SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THEORETICAL TOPICS

Please study the handouts below for some rough notes (including definitions, etc.) on theoretical topics (e.g. the nature of knowledge or Literary History) which we address from time to time. 

• Arts:

  • Literature:

    • Literary Theory:

      • The Author

      • Literary Form and Genre

      • Literary History / Intertextuality / Canonicity

      • The Reader

      • Representation

• Communication:

  • Hermeneutics

  • Language

  • Linguistics

  • Rhetoric

• History

• Human Being:

  • Philosophy of Mind

  • Psychology

• Knowledge:

  • Rationalism versus Empiricism

  • Reasoning

• Metaphilosophy / Metatheory:

  • What is Philosophy?

  • What is Theory?

• Morality

• Nature:

  • Metaphysics

  • Science

• Society:

  • Anthropology

  • Economics

  • Law

  • Politics

  • Sociology

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