Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. The reading guide for each class will give full details of the assignment and sometimes include passages that are part of your assignment.
| 1/14 | introduction | ||
| 1/16 | Aristotle | production and its excellence (HK 80-1, 86-92, 93-6)—rdng gd | |
| 1/19 | Plato | imitation and knowledge (HK 30-38, 45-49)—rdng gd | |
| 1/21 | mastering appearances and passions (HK 38-45, 49-52)—rdng gd | ||
| 1/23 | Aristotle | poetry, truth, and the emotions (HK 97-100, 106-7, 122-4, 102, 109-12, 137)—rdng gd | |
| 1/26 | Walton | “Fearing Fictions,” pp. 5-16 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | |
| 1/28 | “Fearing Fictions,” pp. 16-27 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 1/30 | “Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/2 | Plato | inspiration and beauty (HK 53-63, 73-7)—rdng gd | |
| 2/4 | Plotinus | beauty and the soul (HK 140-50, 165-7)—rdng gd | |
| 2/6 | beauty and wisdom (HK 151-64, 168-70)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/9 | Ficino | divine radiance and its modes (HK 210-11, 213, 216-9, 224-8)—rdng gd | |
| 2/11 | Shaftesbury | enjoyment vs possession, our sense of beauty (HK 244-9, 252-61)—rdng gd (ppr 1 due) | |
| 2/13 | Hume | “The Standard of Taste” (Hume handout)—rdng gd | |
| 2/16 | Kant | disinterested pleasure (HK 280-6, 293-301)—rdng gd | |
| 2/18 | subjective universality (HK 286-93, 301-4, 312-3)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/20 | contesting taste (HK 308, 331-5)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/23 | Gallie | “Art as an Essentially Contested Concept,” pp. 97-107 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | |
| 2/25 | “Art as an Essentially Contested Concept,” pp. 107-114 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/27 | “Essentially Contested Concepts,” pp. 167-183 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 3/2 | exam | midterm | |
| 3/4 | Burke & Kant | the sublime (Burke & Kant handout)—rdng gd | |
| 3/6 | Kant | genius and aesthetic ideas (HK 313-23, 335-8)—rdng gd | |
| spring break | |||
| 3/16 | Schiller | art, play, and freedom (Schiller handout)—rdng gd | |
| 3/18 | Schelling | resolving an infinite contradiction in a finite product (HK 347, 349, 354-5, 361-74)—rdng gd | |
| 3/20 | Hegel | aspiring after and attaining the Ideal (HK 424, 428-33, 437-40)—rdng gd | |
| 3/23 | transcending the Ideal (HK 434-6, 440-5)—rdng gd | ||
| 3/25 | Schopenhauer | will-less contemplation, against allegory (HK 448-51, 456-60, 480-6)—rdng gd | |
| 3/27 | the directness of music (HK 486-95)—rdng gd | ||
| 3/30 | Nietzsche | the discharge of music in pictures (HK 498-504, 514-7, 525-7)—rdng gd | |
| 4/1 | aesthetic Socratism wrecks tragedy (HK 539-44, 550-4)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/3 | no class | (ppr 2 due) | |
| 4/6 | Heidegger | the happening of truth (HK 650-668)—rdng gd | |
| 4/8 | world and earth (HK 669-683)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/10 | founding and preserving (HK 683-708)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/13 | Croce | intuition & expression vs communication (Croce handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/15 | Bullough | aesthetic distance (Bullough handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/17 | Bell | significant form (Bell handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/20 | Gombrich | schema and correction (on EBSCO)—rdng gd | |
| 4/22 | Goodman | “Art and Inquiry” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | |
| 4/24 | “Words, Works, Worlds” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/27 | Danto | “The Artworld” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd (ppr 3 due) | |
| 4/29 | “Art, Evolution, and the Consciousness of History” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 5/1 | “Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| exam week | |||
| 5/7 | exam | Thurs. 9 a.m.: final | |