PHI 645 Women in Philosophy & Literature
This course focuses on the often overlooked, yet no less innovative accomplishments of women in philosophy and literature. Figures addressed include Sappho, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Edith Stein, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Huston, Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Marina Tsvetaeva, Martha Nussbaum, Ayn Rand, Flannery O’Connor, and others. The course addresses universal themes, such as sexuality, religion, death, politics, and love as they are present in philosophical texts and actualized in literary form. An interdisciplinary team-taught course. (Same as ENG 645)
Cross Listed Courses
ENG 645