Weekly
Schedule of Readings and Discussion Topics — Fall 2013
Note: The week begins on Monday. This sets the timing and due dates for our online schedule.
Additional materials
such as study questions, handouts, supplementary readings, etc. will be
made available on the course website.
*(CR) indicates texts for close reading assignments.
.........................................................................................
Orientation
Week 1 (26 Aug - 1 Sep) — Introduction to Philosophy of Art
- Timothy Quigley, "Studying Philosophy Online" [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "Philosophy, Art, Philosophy of Art, and Aesthetics" [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "Art and Philosophy: Some Essential Distinctions" [PDF]
Week 2 (2 - 8 Sep) — Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (Critical Thinking Tutorial)
- Critical Thinking (Review resources available on the homepage.) [HTML]
- Module C: Critical Thinking (Do tutorials C01-C03) [HTML]
- Module A: Argument Analysis (Do tutorials A01-A05) [HTML]
Plato and the Poets
Week 3 (9 - 15 Sep) — Art and Inspiration (Plato)
- Timothy Quigley, "Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens" [PDF]
- C.D.C. Reeve, Brief biography of Plato from Republic [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "Socrates and the Sophists: A Brief Introduction" [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "A Note on Reading Plato’s Dialogues" [PDF]
- Harold Osborne, "The Classical Concept of Art" [PDF]
- Plato, Ion [PDF] (CR)*
- Plato, Excerpts from Phaedrus 246a-256d [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "Knowledge or Inspiration? Plato's Ion" [TBA]
Week 4 (16 - 22 Sep) — Art, Beauty, and “Imitation” (Plato)
- Timothy Quigley, "Poetry, Justice, Philosophy, and the State" [PDF]
- Plato, Excerpts from The Republic (Mimesis), 376a-402c; 595a-608b. [PDF] (CR)
- Plato, Excerpt from The Republic (Parts of the Soul), 434d-441e. [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, Note on Plato's Theory of Forms [PDF]
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Plato and the Poets" [PDF]
Week 5 (23 - 29 Sep) — Poetry and Tragedy (Aristotle)
- Aristotle, Poetics (Heath translation) [Heath vii-lxx, 1-62]
- Timothy Quigley, "On Several Concepts in Aristotle's Poetics" [PDF] revise
- Timothy Quigley, "Aristotle — Poetics, Ethics, and Tragedy" [PDF] revise
Week 6 (30 Sep - 6 Oct) — Sophocles' Antigone
- Sophocles, Antigone [Fagles' “Introduction”, 13-53; Antigone, 59-128. (CR)
- Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone [BT]
Week 7 (7 - 13 Oct) — Study Period
Beauty and the Sublime
Week 8 (14 - 20 Oct) — The Standard of Taste (Hume)
- David Hume, "On the Standard of Taste" [PDF] (CR)
- Timothy Quigley, "18th Century European Philosophy — Inner Sense Theories" [PDF]
- Jonathan Bennett's version of Hume's essay [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "Summary: Hume, 'Of the Standard of Taste'" [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "Philosophical Glossary — 18th Century Empiricism and Idealism" [PDF]
Week 9 (21 - 27 Oct) — The Judgment of Taste (Kant)
- Immanuel Kant, Excerpts from Critique of Judgment [PDF] (CR)
- Douglas Burnham, "Theory of Aesthetics and Teleology: The Critique of Judgment" [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "Introduction to Kant's Aesthetic Theory" [PDF]
- Timothy Quigley, "General Features of Kant's Faculty Psychology" [PDF]
Week 10 (28 Oct - 3 Nov) — Natural Beauty, Fine Art, and Genius (Kant)
- Timothy Quigley, "Kant: Critique of Judgment -- Fine Art and Genius" [PDF]
Week 11 (4 - 10 Nov) — Study Period
Art, Ethics, and Politics
Week 12 (11 - 17 Nov)— Art and Ethics
- Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun [FS] (CR)
Week 13 (18 - 24 Nov) — Art and Commitment
- Jean-Paul Sartre, What is literature? [PDF] (CR)
>> Thanksgiving Break — 25 Nov - 1 Dec <<
Week 14 (2 - 8 Dec) — Art and Idea
- Gilles Deleuze, "What is the creative act?" [PDF]
- Jarry and Sommer, "Une leçon de Pierre Boulez" (A Lesson by Pierre Boulez) [Video]
Week 15 (9 - 15 Dec) — Final Essay/Study Period
----------
Last Update:20 Nov 12