Art and Philosophy
11/6/24
Assignment #8: Music
10/30/24
Assignment #7: Paradox of Fiction
10/18/24
Assignment #6: Korsmeyer
Read: Korsmeyer, Aesthetic value, Art, and Food.
(Thanks to Thomas for today's discussion of Heidegger.)
Supplemental: "Heidegger's Aesthetics" from the SEP:
Heidegger’s Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Review of Wolin's Heidegger in Ruins:
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology | Contemporary Political Theory
Assignment #5: Heidegger
Read: Heidegger's essay in our text for Friday. (Thanks to Robert for today's discussion of Nietzsche.)
Supplemental: SEP article on Heidegger:
10/4/24
Assignment #4: Hume
Here's some background reading on Hume's aesthetics. (Section 4 is most applicable):
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-aesthetics/
9/30/24
Take-home Quiz #1
Respond fully and succinctly to any 3 of the following prompts (approximately 1 typed page for each should be adequate):
1. What is Nehamas' conception of beauty; and on what basis does Tolstoy reject it?
2. What is Tolstoy's theory of the nature of art; and what are its strengths and limitations?
3. Is Weitz correct when he claims, following Wittgenstein's attempt to define games, that "there can be no logical basis for (classically) defining art?
4. Identify the strengths and limitations of Carlson's model of full aesthetic appreciation for nature (the "natural environmental view").
5. What kind of experience gives rise to art, in Dewey's view?
Due: October 7, in class.
9/27/24
Assignment #3: Dewey
Reminder: I will distribute "take-home essay-style quiz #1" on Monday, September 30.
9/20/24
Assignment #2: Aesthetics and Nature
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/18/5001/htm