Philosophy and Literature (Including Placement Year)

Our course enables you to study topics from both literature and philosophy, and to explore issues at the cross-sections of these two exciting disciplines. We provide a wide-ranging and flexible curriculum, embracing different traditions of philosophical thought, and English literature of several genres and periods. We also focus on the interrelations between the disciplines of philosophy and literature.

You study topics including:

Ethics

Philosophy of religion

European philosophy (including critical theory, phenomenology, and existentialism)

Modernist cityscapes in literature

Victorian literary realism

Our School of Philosophy and Art History has been ranked in the Top 20 in the UK for research excellence (REF 2014, mainstream universities, THE 2014).