Weekly Schedule of Readings and Discussion Topics -- Spring 2012

Additional materials such as study questions, handouts, supplementary readings, etc. will be made available online through the links below.

> Timothy Quigley, Introduction

Session 2: 2 Feb 12

> Timothy Quigley, "Eighteenth Century European Philosophy: Inner Sense Theories" [PDF]
> David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste" [PDF]

Supplementary Handouts
> Timothy Quigley, "Philosophical Glossary: British Empiricism and German Idealism" [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, "Outline: Eighteenth Century Empiricism and German Idealism [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, Summary of Hume's Argument [PDF]
> Jonathan Bennett's 20th century version — David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste" [PDF]

Session 3: 9 Feb 12

> Timothy Quigley, "Introduction to Kant's Aesthetic Theory" [PDF]
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, Book I. Analytic of the Beautiful” [43-60]

Supplementary Handouts
> Timothy Quigley, "General Features of Kant's 'Faculty Psychology'" [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, Notes on the First and Second Moments of the Judgment of Taste [PDF]
> Schematic Diagram of Objective Experience [PDF]
> Christian Wenzel, An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. [PDF]

Session 4:16 Feb 12

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, Book I. Analytic of the Beautiful” [61-95]

Supplementary Handouts
> Timothy Quigley, Notes on the Third and Fourth Moments of the Judgment of Taste [PDF]

Session 5: 23 Feb 12

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, Book II. Analytic of the Sublime” [97-140]

Supplementary Handouts
> Timothy Quigley, Notes on the Sublime [PDF]

Session 6: 1 Mar 12

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Fine Art and Genius” [141-170]

Supplementary Handouts
> Timothy Quigley, "Applications of Kant's Aesthetic Theory" [PDF]

Session 7: 8 Mar 12

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgments” [170-189]

Supplementary Handouts
> Timothy Quigley, Notes on Fine Art and Genius [PDF]

<<*< Spring Break — No Classes >>>

Session 8: 22 Mar 12

> Martin Heidegger, "Origin of the Work of Art" [PDF]

Supplementary Handouts
> Study Questions, "Origin of the Work of Art" [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, "Introduction to Heidegger's 'Origin of the Work of Art'" [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, "Outline of 'Origin of the Work of Art'" [PDF]
> Harold Osborne, Classical Conception of Art (techne) [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, Discussion Notes [PDF]

Session 9: 29 Mar 12

Martin Heidegger, "Origin of the Work of Art"

Supplementary Handouts
> Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Volume I (excerpt) [PDF]
> Key Passages in OWA [PDF]
> Friedrich Holderlin, "Remembrance" [PDF]

Session 10: 5 Apr 12

> Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Eye and Mind" [PDF]

Supplementary Handouts
>Timothy Quigley, "Summary of 'Eye and Mind'" [PDF]
> Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Eye and Mind" (annotated) [PDF]
> Descartes, Excerpt from Optics, "Discourse Four: The Senses in General" [PDF]
> Slides

Session 11: 12 Apr 12

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Eye and Mind"

Supplementary Handouts
> Timothy Quigley, Notes on "Eye and Mind" [PDF]

Session 12: 19 Apr 12

> A. W. Eaton, "Almodovar's Immoralism" [PDF]

Session 13: 26 Apr 12

> Sherri Irvin, "Aesthetics as a Guide to Ethics" [PDF]

Session 14: 3 May 12

> Peter Goldie, "Towards a Virtue Theory of Art" [PDF]

Supplementary Readings
> Peter Goldie, "Virtues of Art and Human Well-Being" [PDF]
> Anil Gomes, "Goldie on the Virtues of Art" [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, "Brief Summary of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" [PDF]
> Julian Stallabrass, "Contemporary Art's Pyrrhic Victory" [PDF]
> Kelly Crow, "Gerhard Richter: The Top Selling Living Artist" [PDF]

Session 15: 10 May 12

Summary and Review

Last Update: 5 May 12