First Week: Introduction;

Second Week: On the relation between philosophy and literature; Christopher New, "What is Literature?";

Third Week: On the relation of philosophy and literature; excerpts from Aristotle's Poetics;

Fourth Week: Jonathan Lear, "Catharsis"; further excerpts from Aristotle's Poetics;

Fifth Week: Philosophy and Tragedy; excerpts from Aristotle, Hegel; Cascardi, "Tragedy and Philosophy";

Sixth Week: "Wisdom and Self-Knowledge in the Analects of Confucius and Xenophon's Memorabilia" (Matt Walker);

Seventh Week: The question of literary truth; excerpts from Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche; Lamarque, "Literature and Truth";

Eighth Week: Literature and ethics; Nussbaum; "Perceptive Equilibrium"; excerpts form Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Henry James;

Nineth Week: Paper Presentation (1);

Tenth Week: The relation between philosophy and literature outside Europe; excerpts from Confucius, Zhuangzi, and Zhu Xi; 

Eleventh Week: Attention and the Cultivation of Emotions; excerpts by Iris Murdoch;

Twelfth Week: Philosophy and literature in postmodernism; excerpts from Blanchot, Lyotard, Derrida, etc.;

Thirteenth Week: Is there something outside the text?; Hagberg, "Self-defining reading: Literature and the Constitution of Personhood";

Fourteenth Week: Metaphor theories and the analysis of literary language; 

Fiveteenth Week: The role of imagination; 

Sixteenth Week: Paper presentation (2).

TBA.

Performance during the seminar：40%

Final paper：60%

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