The MA in Literature and Philosophy builds on a strong tradition of
collaboration between the two disciplines at Sussex. It offers students
the opportunity to examine central questions that arise at the
intersection of philosophy and literature within a genuinely
interdisciplinary context. Research for the MA is supported by the
Centre for Literature and Philosophy and numerous research seminars run
by the participating departments.
Centre website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/index.php
MA website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-7.html
Areas in which research is supported and encouraged: style and
narrative, literary autonomy, truth and fiction, imagination and
emotion, ethics and literature, contexts and limits of interpretation,
approaches to reading including hermeneutics, deconstruction,
phenomenology, psychoanalysis.
In the core course, Explorations in Philosophy and Literature,
specialists in the field address explicitly the question of the
relation of the two disciplines through engagement with authors from
different literary and philosophical traditions. Authors discussed
include: Adorno, Benjamin, Cavell, Derrida, Freud, Heidegger, Lear,
Levinas, Murdoch, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, Rorty, Walton, Williams,
Wittgenstein.
For more information, please contact the convenor: Dr Katerina
Deligiorgi, K.Deligiorgi (at) sussex.ac.uk
