Philosophy of Art

Code Cours
2324-FLSH-ARTS-FR-2003
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
Jerome Roudier
Period

Présentation

Goal

To get to know the main texts
concerning aesthetics from classical Antiquity to the present day, and to
acquire an accurate technical vocabulary in aesthetics. By
the end of the course, students should be able to comment on a philosophical
text and put it in its context, comparing it with other texts of a similar
theme.



Presentation

Reading and analysing the most important
texts on aesthetics from Plato to contemporary philosophers.


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What defines a work of art?


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From where does the artist draw his/her imagination?


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What is beauty?


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How to judge the worth of a work of art.


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The mimesis


Modalités

Evaluation

Ressources

Bibliography

<b>Aristote,</b> Poétique. <b>Benjamin</b>, <i>L’œuvre d’art à l’ère de sa reproductibilité, technique.</i>|| <strong>Bergson, </strong><em>La pensée et le mouvant</em>, Essais, et conférences, V. La perception du changement<strong></strong>|| <strong>Hegel, </strong><em>Esthétique</em>|| <strong>Hegel, </strong><em>Introduction à l'Esthétique</em>|| <b>Heidegger</b><i> Chemins qui ne mènent, nulle part</i>|| <b>Hume</b>, Essais, esthétiques<em></em>|| <strong>Kant</strong><em><b>, </b></em><em>Critique, de la faculté de juger</em>,|| <b>Merleau, Ponty</b>, L’œil et l’esprit.|| <b>Malraux</b>, <i>Le musée imaginaire</i>.|| <b>Nietzsche</b>, <i>Naissance de la, tragédie</i>|| <b>Platon</b>, La, république X, <i>Le banquet, Phèdre,, Hippias.</i>|| <b>Wilde</b><i>, le déclin du mensonge.</i>|| ,