PHI 620 Tragedy & Philosophy: Ancient & Modern Perspectives
This course examines the meaning, value, and purpose of tragedy, tracing key themes and ideas from ancient Athens to Elizabethan England to German Romanticism to the present. Along the way we examine the philosophical imagination of Plato, Aristotle, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Nussbaum, and the literary geniuses of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Jean Racine, Arthur Miller, and others. The broader issues of literary interpretation, canonization, genre, ethics, and aesthetics will be addressed. An interdisciplinary team-taught course. (Same as ENG 620)
Cross Listed Courses
ENG 620