Course detail: PHIL480
TOPICS IN AESTHETICS: 18TH CENTURY AESTHETICS
A study of major authors and themes in eighteenth-century British and German aesthetics, culminating in a close study of Kant's "Critique of the Power of Judgment," which attempted to synthesize the two traditions. Themes will include the variety of aesthetic properties (the beautiful and the sublime), the aims of art, the relations between artistic creation and reception, the relations between art and nature, and the problem of taste. British authors may include Joseph Addison, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Alexander Gerard, Lord Kames, and James Beattie; German authors may include Alexander Baumgarten, Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Georg Sulzer, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Kant. Written work will consist of one term paper.
Fall 2009
Section 401 - SEM
- Days: W Time: 0200PM-0500PM
- GUYER, PAUL D
- COML582401
- GRMN580401