Print From Romanticism to Existentialism
C03136
According to the famous modern American philosopher Richard Rorty the Romantic poets were showed what happens when art is no longer thought of as imitation but, rather, as the artist?s self creation. The poets claimed for art the place in culture traditionally held by religion and philosophy, and the place which the Enlightenment had claimed for science.
The critique and revision of the Enlightenment began with movements that became known as Romanticism. The subsequent secularization and aestheticization of spirituality led directly to Existentialism and the challenge of Nihilism. This is what this course will chart in a series of inter related studies of some of the figures of this era.
Course Content
What will we cover?
Blake to Nietzsche - critiques of enlightenment
Wordsworth and German Idealism
Keats to Yeats - the Aesthetics of Mortality
Fear and Trembling with Kierkegaard
Dostoyevsky and Camus - Notes from the Underground and the Fall.
Heidegger and Wallace Stevens - Poetry as Philosophy.
Entry Requirements
To be eligible for this course you must be 19 or over on 31st August prior to the course start date.
Assessment Methods
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Understand and apply key philosophical concepts of this era
- Identify and analyse the philosophical underpinnings of key literary texts of this era
- Use secondary sources to access and understand primary sources
- Proceed with confidence to develop an independent learning programme in this area of study.
