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Advanced Aesthetics and the Philosophyof Art(2017/2018)

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Module Textbook: (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Further Reading

General Texts, Reference Works and Journals (1 items)

The texts to be found in the course reader are short pieces accompanied by the editor'scommentary. You will be expected to have a firm grasp of this material, but also to havedone further reading and thinking on the topic each week. Suggestions are given undereach topic and you will be expected to do your own research, enabling you to makeinformed and reflective contributions to seminar discussions. 

Introductions (2 items)

Philosophy of the arts: an introduction to aesthetics - Gordon Graham, 2005Book | Further Reading

Aesthetics: key concepts in philosophy - Daniel Alan Herwitz, 2008Book | Further Reading

Reference Works (4 items)

The Routledge companion to aesthetics - 2013Book | Further Reading

The Oxford handbook of aesthetics - Jerrold Levinson, 2005Book | Further Reading

Encyclopedia of aesthetics - Michael Kelly, 1998Book | Further Reading

The Blackwell guide to aesthetics - Peter Kivy, 2004Book | Further Reading

Collections (2 items)

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Aesthetics: the classic readings - David Cooper, Peter Lamarque, Crispin Sartwell, 1997Book | Further Reading

The philosophy of art: readings ancient and modern - Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley, 1995Book | Further Reading

Journals (6 items)

American Philosophical QuarterlyJournal | Further Reading

British Journal of AestheticsJournal | Further Reading

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismJournal | Further Reading

The Journal of PhilosophyJournal | Further Reading

Philosophy and LiteratureJournal | Further Reading

Philosophical QuarterlyJournal | Further Reading

Week 1: Imitation and the Social Value of Art (8 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Core Reading | extract from Plato, Republic bk, 10

Further Reading (7 items)

The Republic - Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee, Plato, 2007Book | Further Reading | Plato, Republic bks 2, 3 and 10

Ion: Hippias minor ; Laches ; Protagoras - Reginald E. Allen, Plato, 1996Book | Further Reading

Poetics - Anthony Kenny, Philip Sidney, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Aristotle,Plato, 2013

Book | Further Reading

The principles of art - R. G. Collingwood, 1938Book | Further Reading

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Plato’s Analogy between Painter and Poet - Christopher Janaway, 1991Article | Further Reading

Images of excellence: Plato's critique of the arts - Christopher Janaway, 2005Book | Further Reading

The fire & the sun: why Plato banished the artists - Iris Murdoch, 1977Book | Further Reading

Week 2: Tragedy, Suffering and Artistic Drives (11 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Core Reading | extract from Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Further Reading (10 items)

The birth of tragedy - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Douglas Smith, 2000Book

Poetics - Anthony Kenny, Philip Sidney, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Aristotle,Plato, 2013

Book

The world as will and representation: Vol. 1 - Arthur Schopenhauer, Judith Norman, AlistairWelchman, Christopher Janaway, 2010

Book | Further Reading | § 51 and 52

Chapter "Of Tragedy (Hume)" in The philosophy of art: readings ancient and modern - AlexNeill, Aaron Ridley

Chapter | Further Reading | Also in Essays Moral, Political and Literary, ed. Eugene F.Miller (1987)

How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina? - Colin Radford and Michael Weston,1975

Article | Further Reading | Also in Neill & Ridley (eds.), Arguing About Art

Fearing Fictions - Kendall L. Walton, 1978Article | Further Reading

Chapters 1-3 of Art and emotion - Derek MatraversChapter | Further Reading

Chapter 2 of The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy -Martha Craven Nussbaum

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Chapter | Further Reading

Deeper than reason: emotion and its role in literature, music, and art - Jenefer Robinson,2007

Book | Further Reading | esp. pp.143-8

The Pleasures of Tragedy - Susan L. Feagin, 1983Article | Further Reading |

excerpts repr. in Feagin &Maynard (eds.), Aesthetics

Week 3: Aesthetic Experience and Beyond (10 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Core Reading | Noël Carroll, ‘Art and Interaction’

Further Reading (9 items)

Critique of the power of judgment - Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, E. G. Matthews, 2001Book | Further Reading

The philosophy of art: readings ancient and modern - Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley, 1995Book | Further Reading | Bell, Clive (1914), ‘The Aesthetic Hypothesis’

The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude - George Dickie, 1964Article | Further Reading

Form and Content: An Aesthetic Theory of Art - Richard Eldridge, 1985Article | Further Reading | Also repr. in Neill & Ridley (eds.), The Philosophy of Art

The philosophy of art: readings ancient and modern - Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley, 1995Book | Core Reading | Gadamer, H-G (1973), ‘The Play of Art’

Part I, II, 1, ‘Play as the clue to ontological explanation’Chapter | Further Reading | Part I, II, 1, ‘Play as the clue to ontological explanation’

On the Origins of "Aesthetic Disinterestedness" - Jerome Stolnitz, 1961Article | Further Reading

"The Aesthetic Attitude" in the Rise of Modern Aesthetics - Jerome Stolnitz, 1978Article | Further Reading

The Aesthetic Attitude - G. Kemp, 1999Article | Further Reading

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Week 4: Appreciation of Nature (10 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Core Reading | R.W.Hepburn, extracts from ‘Contemporary Aesthetics and theNeglect of Natural Beauty’

Further Reading (9 items)

Critique of the power of judgment - Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, E. G. Matthews, 2001Book | Further Reading | §11-14, §28-30

Aesthetic theory - Theodor W. Adorno, Gretel Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann, RobertHullot-Kentor, 2004

Book | Further Reading | esp. ‘Natural Beauty’

Aesthetics and the environment: the appreciation of nature, art, and architecture - AllenCarlson, 2000

Book | Further Reading

The aesthetics of environment - Arnold Berleant, 1992Book | Further Reading

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism - Arnold Berleant and Allen CarlsonJournal | Further Reading

Beyond aesthetics: philosophical essays - Noël Carroll, 2001Book | Further Reading

Chapter "Eye and Mind" in The primacy of perception, and other essays onphenomenological psychology, the philosophy of art, history and politics - MauriceMerleau-Ponty, James M. Edie

Chapter | Further Reading | Also re-printed in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, ed.Galen A. Johnson

Chapter "The Land Esthetic" in A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology andconservation - Aldo Leopold, Curt Meine

Chapter | Further Reading

The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature - M. Budd, 1996Article | Further Reading

Week 5: Aesthetics Judgements: Objective, Subjective, Intersubjective?(10 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

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Chapter 3: "Of the Standard of Taste (Hume)" in Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art:selected texts with interactive commentary - Christopher Janaway

Chapter | Further Reading | Also in Kant, extracts from Critique of the Power ofJudgment

Further Reading (9 items)

Hume and the Nature of Taste - James R. Shelley, 1998Article | Further Reading

Hume's Two Standards of Taste - Jeffrey Wieand, 1984Article | Further Reading

Hume's Standard of Taste - Noel Carroll, 1984Article | Further Reading

Kant's aesthetic theory: an introduction - Salim Kemal, 1997Book | Further Reading

Kant's theory of taste: a reading of the Critique of aesthetic judgment - Henry E. Allison,2001

Book | Further Reading

Values of beauty: historical essays in aesthetics - Paul Guyer, 2005Book | Further Reading

Kant and the claims of taste - Paul Guyer, 1997Book | Further Reading

Aesthetic essays - Malcolm Budd, 2012Book | Further Reading

The Objectivity of Aesthetic Judgements - M.W. Rowe, 1999Article | Further Reading

Week 6: Expression and Imagination (9 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Core Reading | Collingwood extracts from The Principles of Art

Further Reading (8 items)

What is art?: and essays on art - Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, 1962Book | Further Reading | esp. chps 5&6. Also - excerpts in Feagin & Maynard (eds.)

Aesthetics, Neill & Ridley (eds.), The Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern

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Chapter "Expressive Properties of Art" in Mind & art: an essay on the varieties ofexpression - Guy Sircello

Chapter | Further Reading

Art and emotion - Derek Matravers, 1998Book | Further Reading

Aesthetic Theory and the Experience of Art - R. K. Elliott, 1967Article | Further Reading | repr. in Neill & Ridley (eds.), The Philosophy of Art

Languages of art: an approach to a theory of symbols - Nelson Goodman, c1976Book | Further Reading

Congratulations, It's a Tragedy: Collingwood's Remarks on Genre - A. Ridley, 2002-01-01Article

Deeper than reason: emotion and its role in literature, music, and art - Jenefer Robinson,2005

Book | Further Reading | esp. parts I and III

The expression of emotion in the visual arts: a philosophical inquiry - Benjamin R.Tilghman, B. R. Tilghman, 1970

Book | Further Reading

Week 7: Institutional Theories of Art (10 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book

Further Reading (9 items)

The Artworld - Arthur Danto, 1964Article | Further Reading

Art and the aesthetic: an institutional analysis - George Dickie, 1974Book | Further Reading

Art and its objects - Richard Wollheim, 1992Book | Further Reading | ‘The Institutional Theory of Art,’ Supplementary Essay 1

DEFINING ART HISTORICALLY - Jerrold Levinson, 1979Article | Further Reading

Extending Art Historically - Jerrold Levinson, 1993Article | Further Reading

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Art, Practice, and Narrative - Noël Carroll, 1988Article | Further Reading

Beyond aesthetics: philosophical essays - Noël Carroll, 2001Book | Further Reading

Definitions of art - Stephen Davies, 1991Book | Further Reading

Chapters 1 and 2 of Defining art, creating the canon: artistic value in an era of doubt - PaulCrowther

Chapter | Further Reading

Week 8 The Death of the Author (10 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Core Reading | Ronald Barthes ‘The Death of the Author’

Further Reading (9 items)

Critique of the power of judgment - Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, E. G. Matthews, 2001Book | Further Reading | §46-49

Chapter "What is an Author?" in The Foucault reader - Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow, 1984Chapter | Further Reading

The death and return of the author: criticism and subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault andDerrida - Burke, 2008

Book | Further Reading

Chapter "The intentional fallacy (Wimsatt W and Beardsley M)" in The philosophy of art:readings ancient and modern - Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley

Chapter | Further Reading

The philosophy of art: readings ancient and modern - Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley, 1995Book | Further Reading

Chapter "Criticism as Retrieval" in Art and its objects - Richard WollheimChapter | Further Reading | Also, repr. in Neill & Ridley (eds.), The Philosophy of Art:

Readings Ancient and Modern

Is there a text in this class?: The authority of interpretive communities - Stanley EugeneFish, 1980

Book | Further Reading | Also, repr. in Neill & Ridley (eds.), The Philosophy of Art:Readings Ancient and Modern

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Intention and interpretation - Gary Iseminger, 1992Book | Further Reading

Art and intention: a philosophical study - Paisley Livingston, 2005Book | Further Reading

Week 9: Works, Interpretations and Reproductions (7 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactive commentary -Christopher Janaway, 2006

Book | Core Reading | Arthur Danto extract from The Transfiguration of theCommonplace

Further Reading (6 items)

The transfiguration of the commonplace: a philosophy of art - Arthur C. Danto, 1981Book | Further Reading

Beyond the brillo box: the visual arts in post-historical perspective - Arthur C. Danto, 1998Book | Further Reading

Chapter "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in Illuminations -Benjamin Walter

Chapter | Further Reading

Chapter "Danto’s Gallery of Indiscernibles" in Danto and his critics - Mark RollinsChapter | Further Reading

Languages of art: an approach to a theory of symbols - Nelson Goodman, 1976Book | Further Reading | esp. Ch. 3

Two Kinds of Artistic Duplication - Christopher Janaway, 1997Article | Further Reading

Week 10 Depiction in Art (6 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Chapter 6 of Reading aesthetics and philosophy of art: selected texts with interactivecommentary - Christopher Janaway

Chapter | Core Reading | extracts from Nelson Goodman Languages of Art and RichardWollheim, Painting as an Art

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Further Reading (5 items)

On Pictorial Representation - Richard Wollheim, 1998Article | Further Reading

Depiction - Christopher Peacocke, 1987Article | Further Reading

Deeper into pictures: an essay on pictorial representation - Flint Schier, 1986Book | Further Reading

Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation - E. H. Gombrich,1977

Book | Further Reading

Understanding pictures - Dominic Lopes, 2004Book | Further Reading

Week 11: World and Earth: The Origin of the Work of Art (8 items)

Core Reading (1 items)

Off the beaten track - Martin Heidegger, Julian Young, Kenneth Haynes, 2002Book | Core Reading | The Origin of the Work of Art

Further Reading (7 items)

Heidegger's philosophy of art - Julian Young, 2001Book | Further Reading

Heidegger on art and art works - Joseph J. Kockelmans, Joseph J. Kockelmans, 1985Book | Further Reading

Martin Heidegger - Timothy Clark, 2002Book | Further Reading

Anselm Kiefer and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger - Matthew Biro, 1998Book | Further Reading

Art and thought - Dana Arnold, Margaret Iversen, 2003Book | Further Reading

Chapter 5 of Art of the modern age: philosophy of art from Kant to Heidegger - Jean-MarieSchaeffer

Chapter | Further Reading

Truth and art - Albert Hofstadter, 1968Book | Further Reading

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