PHI 507 - Aesthetic System

A concentrated reading of a single major work, with attention both to its detailed structure and to its larger significance. Candidates for such reading include Aristotle’s Poetics, Kant’s Critique of Judgement, Hegel’s Lectures on The Philosophy of Art, Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, Collingwood’s Principles of Art, Langer’s Feeling and Form, Dewey’s Art as Experience, Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art”, and Danto’s Transfiguration of the Commonplace.

3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Offered Fall

Repeatable May be repeated for credit.