An Introduction to the Relation of Literature and Philosophy

Literature and Philosophy have been interacting and transacting all the time. Sometimes so close even become the same and sometimes seperate. From the Ancient time, the type of relation among these two fields of human thought has been the intellectuals focus. But the issue remains on the logical relation between literature and philosophy. The aim of this paper is to prepare a scientific and understandable form of the issue in an analytical, historical and methodological view. To do so, involves with the purportfull issues on the essense of literature and philosophy, investigates the scientific validity of both mentioned and latter on assignes the similarities and divergences among these fields.Finally involves with making various logical and meaningful relations among literature and philosophy. What rises from the discussed issues of this paper is that both have an existentialistic dimention but with different methods and langueges and that the borders of these cosmos tradition have been so much close to each other in the recent century.