Week 1
Is Art Liberal?
Reading
Aristotle, (1984) Nicomachean Ethics Book 6, in The Complete Works of Aristotle Volume 2, West Sussex: Princeton University Press
Collingwood, R.G. ‘The Principles of Art’ in Cahn, S.M. &Meskin, A. (2008) (eds) Aesthetics A comprehensive Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Dunne, J. (1993) Back to the Rough Ground, Indiana: University of Notre Dame
Wider reading
Collingwood, R.G. ‘The Principles of Art’ in Cahn, S.M. &Meskin, A. (2008) (eds) Aesthetics A comprehensive Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Dunne, J. (1993) Back to the Rough Ground, Indiana: University of Notre Dame
Kristeller, P.O. ‘The Modern System of the Arts’ in Feagin, S. & Maynard, P. (eds) (1997) Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Nahn, M.C. (1975) Readings in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics, London: Englewood Cliffs
Tubbs, N. (2004) ‘Theory and Practice:the Politics of Philosophical Character’ in Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 38, No. 4
Week 2
the ‘work’ of art
Reading
Da Vinci, L (2008) Notebooks, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Maritain, J. (1977 )Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Surrey: Princeton University Press
Sontag, S. (2003) Regarding the Pain of Others, London: Hamish Hamilton
Williams, R. (2005) Grace and Necessity, London: Continuum
Wider reading
Augustine ‘De Musica’ Book VI in Cahn, S.M. &Meskin, A. (eds) (2008) Aesthetics A Comprehensive Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Keats, J. (1966) Selected Poems and Letters of John Keats, London: Heinemann
McInerny, R. (1989) Art and Prudence: Studies in the Thought of Jacques Maritain, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press
Plotinus, (2008) Ennead I, vi in Aesthetics A comprehensive Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Tolstoy, L. ‘What is Art?’ in Cahn, S.M. &Meskin, A. (2008) (eds) Aesthetics A comprehensive Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Trapani, J.G. (jr) (2001) Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation: The Complete Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain, The Catholic University of America Press
Rilke, R. M. (1986) Letters to a young poet, New York: Random House, Inc. Also available online at http://www.carrothers.com/rilke_main.htm
Wilde, O. ‘The New Aesthetics’ in Feagin, S. & Maynard, P. (eds) (1997) Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Week 3
Kant, Judgement and the Fine Arts
Reading
Kant, I. (2007) Critique of Judgement, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
Kant, I. (1993) Critique of Pure Reason, London: Orion Publishing Group,
Wider reading
Caygill, H. (1996) A Kant Dictionary, Oxford, Blackwell,
Deleuze, G. (1995) Kant’s Critical Philosophy, London, Athlone Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 1, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Kirwan, J. (2004) Aesthetic in Kant, London: Continuum
Pillow, K. (2000) Sublime understanding: aesthetic reflection in Kant and Hegel, London: MIT Press
Plotinus, (2008) Ennead I, vi in Aesthetics A comprehensive Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Tubbs, N. (2004) Philosophy’s Higher Education, Dordrecht: Kluwer
Wenzel, C.H. (2005) An Introduction to Kant’s Aesthetics: Core Concepts and Problems, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Week 4
Hegel’s ‘philosophy of art’
Reading
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 1, Oxford, Oxford University Press Introduction
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 2, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Wider reading
Beiser, F.C. (1993) (ed)The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Inwood, M. (1992) A Hegel Dictionary, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Hegel, G.W.F. (1993) Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, London: Penguin Books Kaminsky, J. (1962) Hegel on Art: Interpretation of Hegel’s Aesthetics, State University of New York Press
Peters, G. (2005) Irony and Singularity, Aesthetic Education from Kant to Levinas, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited
‘The Aporia of Configured Meaning: teaching Hegel’s aesthetics’, Peters, Gary. Journal of Visual Art Practice. 2001, Vol. 1 Issue 2,
Week 5
the ‘end of art’
Reading
Danto, A.C. (1986) The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, New York: Columbia University Press
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 1, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Hegel, G.W.F. (1993) Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, London: Penguin Books
Peters, G. (2005) Irony and Singularity, Aesthetic Education from Kant to Levinas, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Wicks, R. (1993) ‘Hegel’s aesthetics: an overview’ in Beiser, F.C. (1993) (ed)The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Wider reading
Eva, G. ‘Endgames: Reconstructing Adorno’s “End of Art”‘, New German Critique, 81
Danto, A.C. (1986) The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, New York: Columbia University Press
Danto, A. C. (1997)After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
Geulen, E. (2006) The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor After Hegel, Stanford University Press
James, D. (2009) Art, Myth and Society in Hegel’s Aesthetics, London: Continuum
Kaminsky, J. (1962) Hegel on Art: Interpretation of Hegel’s Aesthetics, State University of New York Press
Miller, Jason. “The ‘Death of Art’ and Painting the ‘Sunday of Life’: Hegel on the Fate of Modern Art,” Evental Aesthetics 1, no. 1 (2012): 39-47
Week 6
Beauty and Illusion
Reading
Rose, G. Hegel Contra Sociology, London: The Athlone Press
Wider Reading
Adorno, T. (1997) Aesthetic Theory, London: Continuum
Adorno, T. (2002) ‘What National Socialism has done to the Arts’ in Essays on Music, California: University of California Press Ltd
Tony Gorman (2001) ‘Gillian Rose and the Project of a Critical Marxism’ in Radical Philosophy 105, pp. 25-36.
Peters, G. (2005) Irony and Singularity, Aesthetic Education from Kant to Levinas, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Week 7
The Angel of History
Reading
website – ‘The Angel of History’
Wider reading
website on Benjamin’s ‘The Concept of History’
Koeptnich, P. (1989) Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power London: University of Nebraska
Lane, R. (2005) Reading Walter Benjamin: writing through the catastrophe University of Manchester Press
Langer, S. (1953) Feeling and Form London: Routledge & Keegan Paul
Lowy, M. (2005) Fire Alarm: reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ London: Verso
Marwick, A. (1989) 2nd. Editn. The Nature of History Basingstoke: Macmillan
Steinberg, P. (1996) Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History London: Cornell University Press
Richard Wolin (1994) Walter Benjamin: an aesthetics of redemption London: University of California Press
Week 8
The Work of Art Essay
Reading
website – ‘The Work of Art’
Wider reading
website on Benjamin’s ‘A Short History of Photography’
Benjamin, A. (2005) Walter Benjamin and Art London: Continuum
Buskirk, M. (2003) The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art MIT Press
Howard Caygill: Walter Benjamin: the colour of experience, London: Routledge.
Weigel, S. (1996) Body- and Image-Space: re-reading Walter Benjamin London: Routledge
Week 9
Philosophy in the City
Reading
website – Benjamin: ‘Naples’
Wider reading
websites on Andre Malraux and Paul Valery
Howard Caygill: Walter Benjamin: the colour of experience, London: Routledge.
Gilloch, G. (1996) Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the city London: Polity
Susan Buck-Morss The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
Rainer, N. (1991) Theatres, Theory, Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the scenes of Modernity London: Johns Hopkins University Press
Week 10
The Paris Arcades
Reading
The Arcades Project: Walter Benjamin – selections
Wider reading
website: Esther Leslie on the Arcades project, website – the ‘Arcades Project Project’, website – article on ‘The Passageways of Paris’
Buse, P. (2006) Benjamin’s Arcades: an unguided tour Manchester University Press
Eagleton, T. (1981) Walter Benjamin, or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism London: Verso
Susan Buck-Morss The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
Week 11
Profane Illumination – Benjamin’s Surrealism
Reading
website – Benjamin: ‘Surrealism: the last snapshot of the European intelligentsia’
Wider reference
Andre Breton (1999) Nadja London: Penguin
Margaret Cohen (1993, 5) Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist revolution London: University of California Press
Leslie, E. (2000) Walter Benjamin: overpowering conformism London: Pluto
Whybrow, N. (2005) Street Scene: Brecht, Benjamin, Berlin Bristol: Intellect
Week 12
Aesthetic Meaning – of allegories and emblems
Reading
Gregory Bateson ‘Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art’ in his Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Wider reading
Bateson (1980) Mind and Nature London: Fontana
Bath, M. (1994) Speaking Pictures: English emblem books and Renaissance culture London: Longman
Gunning, T. (2000) The Films of Fritz Lang: allegories of vision and Modernity London: BFI
Manning, J. (2002) The Emblem London: Reaktion