Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Considers the rapport among language, relation, and literature. Focuses upon the relations among context and modes of address (the Qur’an , Levinas, Austin, Derrida); the name and the positing force of language (Darwish, Plato, Nietzsche); and language, violence, and poetic statement (Ibn Arabi, Heidegger, Benjamin).