| PHIL 175 --
Aesthetics Spring 2014 |
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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:
Tu/Th 9:30-10:50am Location: Thurgood Marshall College (TM) 102 [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, possibly including: Plato, Hume, Kant, Freud,
Emma Goldman, Clive Bell, Susanne Langer, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Theodor
Adorno, Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Harold Rosenberg,
Linda Nochlin, Carol Duncan, and Cynthia Freeland. |
| {tentative} * weekly reading/lecture questionnaires * 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) |