This course will consist of a series of juxtapositions of philosophical and literary texts, aiming to develop resources for philosophical readings of literature and literary readings of philosophy over a range of periods and genres.

Probable readings:
Descartes, Discourse on Method;
Shakespeare, Hamlet;
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpts);
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Vols. 1-4;
Kant, Proglegomena to Any Future Metaphysic;
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads;
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals;
Eliot, Silas Marner;
Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art;
Stevens, selected poems.