Weekly Schedule of Readings and Discussion Topics -- Fall 2009

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


Session 1: 31 Aug 09

> Timothy Quigley, Introductory Note [PDF]


7 Sep 09 -- No Class Meeting -- Labor Day


Session 2: 14 Sep 09

> Timothy Quigley, "Eighteenth Century European Philosophy: Inner Sense Theories" [PDF]
> Jens Kuhlenkampf, "The Objectivity of Taste: Hume and Kant" [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, "Introduction to Kant's Aesthetic Theory" [PDF]
> Schematic Diagram of Objective Experience [PDF]

Optional Reading
> Christian Wenzel, An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, "Philosophical Glossary: British Empiricism and German Idealism" [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, "Outline: Eighteenth Century Empiricism and German Idealism [PDF]

Session 3: 21 Sep 09

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]

> Descriptive Analysis - Option 1: First Moment of the Judgment of Taste
> Descriptive Analysis - Option 2: Second Moment of the Judgment of Taste


28 Sep 09 -- No Monday Class Meeting -- Rosh Hashana ** Class Meets on Tuesday **


Session 4: 29 Sep 09 (Tuesday)

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]

> Descriptive Analysis - Option 3: Third Moment of the Judgment of Taste
> Descriptive Analysis - Option 4: Fourth Moment of the Judgment of Taste

Session 5: 5 Oct 09

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]

> Descriptive Analysis - Option 5: The Mathematically Sublime
> Descriptive Analysis - Option 6: The Dynamically Sublime

Session 6: 12 Oct 09

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

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

Session 7: 19 Oct 09

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

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

> Descriptive Analysis - Option 7: Fine Art and Genius

Session 8: 26 Oct 09

> 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: 2 Nov 09

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: 9 Nov 09

Martin Heidegger, "Origin of the Work of Art"

Session 11: 16 Nov 09

> 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 12: 23 Nov 09

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Eye and Mind"

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

> Final Essay Assignment

Session 13: 30 Nov 09

Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation [vii-xxxiii; 3-38]

Supplementary Materials
> Selected Images from Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
> Gilles Deleuze, Lectures on Kant, Vincennes, 1978 (external website)
> Kennedy & Bourne, "Rhythm" (defintion in music theory) [PDF]
> Timothy Quigley, Notes on Translator's Introduction, Francis Bacon [PDF]

> Timothy Quigley, Notes on Sections for Discussion [PDF]

Session 14: 7 Dec 09

Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation [99-129]

Session 15: 14 Dec 09

Summary & Review


Last Update: 4 Dec 09