Aesthetics
PHIL 267
Spring 2014
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| Crosslisting:
COL 266 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
Classical mimetic and literary theory and German aesthetic theory were two of the most exciting and revolutionary periods in philosophical aesthetics. Among the prominent philosophers working in the heyday of aesthetics, we will look at Plato, Aristotle and the influence of these classical debates on authors grouped under the label, German Romantic aestheticians, such as Herder, Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Schlegel, Novalis, Winkelmann, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Hegel. What emerged out of these debates for modern and contemporary aesthetics was a number of central topics, issues, arguments, and controversies having to do with perceptual normativity and the unity of aesthetic experience. In this course, in addition to gaining an overview of the development of philosophical aesthetics, we will examine in depth topics including Goethe's theory of color and its impact on the arts; Wittgenstein's remarks on color; whether our cognitive beliefs change what we see; a model of color perception as a standard of veridicality/error for aesthetic judgments; the concept of unity and disunity in color perception; among others. While we will be primarily focusing on aesthetic theories, we will avoid cutting off aesthetic theory from facts about particular works that could possibly support, enrich, or refute aesthetic theories. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS PHIL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (COL)(CSCT)(PHIL)(PHIL-Philosophy)(PHIL-Social Jus)(STS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Plato, REPUBLIC. Trans. by G. M. A. Grube. Revised by C. D. C. Reeve, 3rd ed. (Hackett, 1992). ISBN: 0-87220-137-6.
Aristotle, POETICS I. Trans. Richard Janko (Hackett, 1987). ISBN: 0-872200-337
GERMAN ROMANTIC CRITICISM: Novalis, Schlegel, Schleiermacher, and others. Ed. Leslie Wilson (New York: Continuum, 1982).
Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste" [CP]
Kant, CRITIQUE OF THE POWER OF JUDGMENT, trans. Paul Guyer (Cambridge UP, 2000). Part I: Analytic of the Beautiful.
Hegel, INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON FINE ART. Ed. Michael Inwood (Penguin Books, 1993).
Arnold Isenberg on belief and perception
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, THEORY OF COLORS (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970)
Wittgensteins's REMARKS ON COLOUR ed. Elizabeth Anscomb (University of California Press, 1978)
Wittgenstein, LECTURES AND CONVERSATIONS ON AESTHETICS, PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF, ed. Cyril Barrett (compiled from notes by Yorick Smythies, Rush Rhees, and James Taylor) (University of California Press)
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Examinations and Assignments:
two in class exams, 1 long paper |
| Instructor(s): Hahn,Susan Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: PAC104; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
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