ENG 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Literal And Figurative Language, Rhetorical Question, Paul De Man
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Nietzsche, on truth and lying in a non-moral sense . Along with marx and freud, as i have suggested, you can see nietzsche as an important part of a philosophical. Triumvirate at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, who sought to challenge and overturn the idealism and faith in the rational human subject that had dominated western thought since plato. This selection from nietzsche is, in particular, valuable for literary criticism because it so squarely addresses this issue as a matter of language. The essay has been extremely influential to more recent literary theorists interested in the way that language forms concepts. Relate his argument, specifically, to ferdinand de saussure"s in the following weeks. Some particular points of focus in your reading should include the following: your introduction tells you this essay has been a favorite reference point for [deconstructive] poststructuralists such as jacques derrida and paul de man (870).
