TDE404

School of Humanities \ Turkish Language and Literature

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6

Elective

Turkish

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Turkish Language and Literature Undergraduate Program

In this course, the grounds where literature and philosophy touch will be emphasized. For this purpose, important systems in the history of philosophy and the views of philosophers will be read in relation to works in Turkish and world literature.

Ahmet Cevizci - Felsefe Tarihi Serisi
Alfred Weber - Felsefe Tarihi
Bertrand Russell - Batı Felsefesi Tarihi I-II-III
Ernst Von Aster - İlkçağ ve Ortaçağ Felsefe Tarihi
Hilmi Ziya Ülken - Türkiye’de Çağdaş Düşünce Tarihi
Jacqueline Russ - Avrupa Düşüncesinin Serüveni (Antikçağlardan Günümüze Batı Düşüncesi)
Feyza Şule Güngör-Kurmacanın Felsefesi
Hilmi Yavuz-Edebiyatla Felsefe Arasında
Platon-Sokrates’in Savunması
Friedrich Nietzsche – Tragedyanın Doğuşu
Soren Kierkegaard - Ya / Ya da
Henri Bergson - Metafiziğe Giriş
Henri Bergson - Yaratıcı Tekâmül
Henri Bergson - Şuurun Doğrudan Doğruya Verileri
Henri Bergson - Madde ve Bellek
Edmund Husserl - Kesin Bir Bilim Olarak Felsefe
Martin Heidegger - Varlık ve Zaman
Jean-Paul Sartre - Edebiyat Nedir?

The aim of this course is to read the grounds where literature and philosophy touch by associating them with works in Turkish and world literature.

1. Learns the common areas of literature and philosophy.
2. Recognizes important systems and philosophers in the history of philosophy.
3. Can analyze works in the context of the relationship between literature and philosophy.

Week 1: What, why, how will we do it? Course content, responsibilities, introduction of resources
Week 2: Concept comes first or metaphor? Points of contact between literature and philosophy, mythopoetic thought, the distinction between theoria and praxis. Is real knowledge on earth or in the sky? Plato and Aristotle and Ancient Greek philosophy and literature
Week 3: You belong to whomever you philosophize with! Plato or Aristotle? Reflections of Ancient Greek Philosophy on Medieval Christian philosophy and the Renaissance. Could our perceptions be misleading us? Descartes and the “being” of thinking
Week 4: The age of reason and the birth of modern philosophy. What can I know? How is “everyone’s morality” possible? Immanuel Kant’s law of knowledge and morality. How can I become self-conscious? Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Week 5: Can literature be an opium? Karl Marx, Engels, and the Frankfurt School
Week 6: I want, but what? Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism. Was it (only) God who died!? Friedrich Nietzsche and the Death of Truth
Week 7: Midterm
Week 8: Can the time of what is in the process of becoming be measured? Henri Bergson's philosophy of intuition
Week 9: What is the essence of what I see? Phenomenology: Husserl, Heiddegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Week 10: What will I do with this existence of mine? Existential Philosophy: Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre
Week 11: What will we do with this fragmented world? Postmodern philosophy
Week 12: Discussion and general evaluation. What happened now? Will the flood come next?

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 35 %
• Text evaluation 25 %
• Participation 10 %