Undergraduate Course: Philosophy of Art (LLLI07006)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | A 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 |
Course Content:
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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 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.
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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. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr James Mooney
Tel: (0131 6)51 6079
Email: james.mooney@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr John Ethcuit
Tel: (0131 6)50 3409
Email: jethcuit@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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