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| Philosophy and Literature Tim Wilson, Ph.D Ottawa, Canada |
| Here you will find some notes from my readings in the history of Western PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE: ANCIENT: - Background: What is Poetry? - Background: What is Philosophy? - Plato (427-347 BCE) - Aristotle (384-322 BCE) MEDIEVAL: - Background: The Middle Ages - Old English Poetry - William Langland (1330-1387) - Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) RENAISSANCE: - Background: The Renaissance - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) - Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) - Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) - Edmund Spenser (1552-99) - Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) - Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - John Milton (1608-74) THE AGE OF REASON: - Background: The Modern Revolution - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) - Ren� Descartes (1596-1650) - John Locke (1632-1704) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) - Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) NINETEENTH CENTURY: - Background: Romanticism - William Blake (1757-1827) - G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) - Percy Byssche Shelley (1793-1822) - Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) - Karl Marx (1818-83) - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) TWENTIETH CENTURY: - Background: The Crisis of Nihilism - T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) - Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) - Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900- ) - Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) - Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924- ) - Michel Foucault (1926-84) - Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) - Jacques Derrida (1930-2005) |
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