| PHIL 175 --
Aesthetics Fall 2016 |
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| Professor:
Clinton Tolley office: HSS 8018 hours: tbd email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Teaching Assistant:
tbd office: hours: tbd email: tbd |
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| Time:
MWF 10:00-10:50am Location: Hum/Soc Sciences bldg (H&SS) 1128A [map] |
| {there are no required
textbooks} {a reader will be made available on the course's TED page} |
| This course will serve as an introduction to the philosophy of art. We will discuss topics such as the nature and value of art, aesthetic experience, artists and the production of art, the grounds of artistic interpretation and evaluation, and the role of the arts in education, culture, and politics. Throughout the course we will engage with art of many different forms (painting, music, literature, photography, film, new media, among others) from many different historical periods, genres, and traditions. We will also read selections from writings on art by various authors from various traditions, including classical authors like: Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, as well as more recent works by Theodor Adorno, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anne Eaton, Michel Foucault, Cynthia Freeland, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Susanne Langer, Herbert Marcuse, Linda Nochlin, Jenefer Robinson, Tobin Siebers, Grant Tavinor, Paul Taylor, Amie Thomasson, and Kendall Walton. |
| {tentative} * weekly reading/lecture questionnaires * weekly short written responses * mid-term exam * final exam * attendance * participation |
| {tbd} |
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online
encyclopedia entries:
Aesthetics (IEP) The concept of the aesthetic (stanford) The definition of art (stanford) History of ontology of art (stanford) Aesthetic judgment (stanford) The philosophy of music (stanford) The philosophy of film (stanford) |