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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences : Lifelong Learning (PPL)

Undergraduate Course: Philosophy of Art (LLLI07006)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryA historical approach to the philosophical problems which are presented by art: its production and its appreciation. Commencing with the ancient Greeks, the course proceeds, via the 18th and 19th centuries, to key 20th-century ideas on the nature and role of art.
Course description Content of course
1. Plato's Republic Book X
2. Aristotle's Poetics
3. Hutcheson's An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design.
4. Hume's Essay on the Standard of Taste
5. Kant's Critique of Judgement.
6. Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena
7. Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy.
8. Tolstoy: What is Art?
9. Sartre: The Psychology of the Imagination.
10. Barthes: The Death of the Author.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  16
Course Start Lifelong Learning - Session 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 98 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Open Studies 10 credit courses have one assessment. Normally, the assessment is a 2000 word essay, worth 100% of the total mark, submitted by week 12. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 40%. There are a small number of exceptions to this model which are identified in the Studying for Credit Guide.
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Learning Outcomes
Students will be able:
¿ To provide an overview of some key developments in aesthetics, from the ancient Greeks to the present day;
¿ To identify key debates, and to adopt and defend a position with regard to these;
¿ To evaluate arguments presented by theorists working in the field of aesthetics.
Reading List
Extracts from the texts studied will be provided to students.
Optional background reading:
Beardsley, M.C., 1966. Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present - A Short History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Cazeaux, C., ed., 2000. The Continental Aesthetics Reader. London: Routledge.
Kearney, R. and Rasmussen, D., eds., 2001. Continental Aesthetics - An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Dickie, G., Sclafani, R. and Roblin, R., eds., 1989. Aesthetics - A Critical Anthology. 2nd ed. New York: St Martin's.
Rice, P. and Waugh, P. 2001. Modern Literary Theory. 4th ed. London: Arnold.
Web sources
There will be a course home page, accessible via a link from http://www.glaucon.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
This will contain extracts from primary sources, tutorial questions, and weekly summaries of work covered.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserMr James Mooney
Tel: (0131 6)50 3077
Email: james.mooney@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk
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