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.
| 1/18 | introduction | ||
| 1/20 | Plato | imitation and knowledge (HK 30-38, 45-49)—rdng gd | |
| 1/22 | mastering appearances and passions (HK 38-45, 49-52)—rdng gd | ||
| 1/25 | Aristotle | poetry, truth, and the emotions (HK 97-100, 106-7, 122-4, 102, 109-12, 137)—rdng gd | |
| 1/27 | Walton | “Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism,” §§1-4, pp. 246-262 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | |
| 1/29 | “Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism,” §§5-9, pp. 262-273 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/1 | “Fearing Fictions,” pp. 5-16 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/3 | “Fearing Fictions,” pp. 16-27 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/5 | Plato | inspiration and beauty (HK 53-63, 73-7)—rdng gd | |
| 2/8 | Plotinus | beauty and the soul (HK 140-50, 165-7)—rdng gd | |
| 2/10 | beauty and wisdom (HK 151-64, 168-70)—rdng gd (ppr 1 due) | ||
| 2/12 | Shaftesbury | enjoyment vs possession, our sense of beauty (HK 244-9, 252-61)—rdng gd | |
| 2/15 | Hume | “The Standard of Taste” (Hume handout)—rdng gd | |
| 2/17 | Kant | disinterested pleasure (HK 280-6, 293-301)—rdng gd | |
| 2/19 | subjective universality (HK 286-93, 301-4, 312-3)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/22 | contesting taste (HK 308, 331-5)—rdng gd | ||
| 2/24 | exam | exam 1 | |
| 2/26 | Burke & Kant | the sublime (Burke & Kant handout)—rdng gd | |
| 3/1 | Kant | genius (HK 313-17, 321-23, 337f)—rdng gd | |
| 3/3 | Schiller | art, play, and freedom (Schiller handout)—rdng gd | |
| 3/5 | Schelling | resolving an infinite contradiction in a finite product (HK 347, 349, 354-5, 361-74)—rdng gd | |
| spring break | |||
| 3/15 | Kant | ideals and aesthetic ideas (HK 318-21, 335-7)—rdng gd | |
| 3/17 | Hegel | aspiring after and attaining the Ideal (HK 424, 428-33, 437-40)—rdng gd | |
| 3/19 | transcending the Ideal (HK 434-6, 440-5)—rdng gd | ||
| 3/22 | Schopenhauer | art, ideas, and will (HK 448-51, 456-60, 480-95)—rdng gd | |
| 3/24 | Nietzsche | the discharge of music in pictures (HK 498-504, 514-7, 525-7)—rdng gd | |
| 3/26 | aesthetic Socratism wrecks tragedy (HK 539-44, 550-4)—rdng gd | ||
| 3/29 | making truth (Nietzsche handout)—rdng gd (ppr 2 due) | ||
| 3/31 | Heidegger | world and earth (HK 662-668, 670-677)—rdng gd | |
| 4/2 | truth and rift-design (HK 677-703)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/5 | Tolstoy | art as the communication of emotion (Tolstoy handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/7 | Croce | intuition & expression vs communication (Croce handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/9 | Hospers | “The Croce-Collingwood Theory of Art,” sels. (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | |
| 4/12 | Bullough | aesthetic distance (Bullough handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/14 | Bell | significant form (Bell handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/16 | Kandinsky | the spiritual in art (Kandinsky handout)—rdng gd | |
| 4/19 | Goodman | “How Buildings Mean” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | |
| 4/21 | “Art and Inquiry” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/23 | “Words, Works, Worlds” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/26 | Danto | “The Artworld” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd (ppr 3 due) | |
| 4/28 | “Art, Evolution, and the Consciousness of History” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| 4/30 | “Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd | ||
| exam week | |||
| 5/7 | exam | Fri. 9 a.m.: exam 2 | |