602020 Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Beauty of nature and of art in the history of aesthetics

winter semester 2016/2017 | Last update: 19.09.2016 Place course on memo list
602020
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Beauty of nature and of art in the history of aesthetics
SE 2
5
Block
every 2nd year
German

Knowledge of the most important concepts, methods and theories of aesthetics, especially the relation between aesthetics, modern subjectivity and technique; student should also be able to analyze these contents, put them in relation and further develop them independently.

 

The course aims at delineating  the origin of aesthetics in  modernity and analyzing the development of its concepts, methods and problems in the most important representative authors and moments of its history. The themes that will be taken in special considerations are: the philosophical value of taste, the beauty in  art and in  nature, the relationship between aesthetics and the modern subject, ontology and art, technique and art. 

lectures, slides 

Paper and houseworks

I. Kant, Kritik der Urteilskraft (Auswahl)

F. Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie

M. Heidegger, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes

W. Benjamin, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit

More references will be given during the course.

 

Registration until 28.08.2016 to sandro.gorgone@gmail.com necessary for students who want to present a paper. 

03.10.2016
Group 0
Date Time Location
Mon 2016-10-03
08.30 - 10.00 4DG14 SR 4DG14 SR
Mon 2016-10-03
12.00 - 13.30 41031 UR 41031 UR Barrier-free
Tue 2016-10-04
08.30 - 10.00 4DG14 SR 4DG14 SR
Tue 2016-10-04
12.00 - 13.30 41031 UR 41031 UR Barrier-free
Wed 2016-10-05
16.30 - 18.45 4DG14 SR 4DG14 SR
Thu 2016-10-06
08.30 - 10.00 40123 40123 Barrier-free
Fri 2016-10-07
08.30 - 11.45 4DG14 SR 4DG14 SR
Mon 2016-10-10
08.30 - 10.00 4DG14 SR 4DG14 SR
Mon 2016-10-10
12.00 - 13.30 41031 UR 41031 UR Barrier-free
Tue 2016-10-11
08.30 - 10.00 41031 UR 41031 UR Barrier-free
Tue 2016-10-11
12.00 - 13.30 41031 UR 41031 UR Barrier-free
Wed 2016-10-12
16.30 - 18.45 4DG14 SR 4DG14 SR
Thu 2016-10-13
08.30 - 10.00 40123 40123 Barrier-free