Syllabus
BibliographyGoodman, Nelson,Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1955. 2nd ed.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. 3rd. ed. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. 4th ed.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1983.Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. 2nd ed.
Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976Rorty, RichardContingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989Philosophical Papers vols I and IV: Objectivity, Relativism and Truth: Philosophical Papers I.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy: Early Philosophical Papers Eds.
S. Leach and J.
Tartaglia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014
Annotation
The seminar is conceived as a collective reading of excerpts coming from the suggested bibliography. An analysis of the style, rhetoric strategy and argumentation of the books will be provided and understood in the historical and cultural framework the authors belong to.
We will be parallel led to understand the importance of literary codes in the writing of philosophy and discuss as well the idea of literature proposed in the selected texts.