Course Details

Country: Spain
Course Title: History of Aesthetics
Course Number: 25124
Course Description: Introduction: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art in its history. ITEM 1. Aesthetics in Greek culture. Objectivity of the beautiful. Plato. Beauty and art. Aristotle. Mimesis, plausibility and catharsis. ITEM 2. The aesthetics in the Enlightenment. Kant. The critique of judgment, the beautiful, the sublime, the genius. ITEM 3. German idealism: Hegel, Schiller and Hölderlin. ITEM 4. The crisis of Modernity. Nietzsche and the vitality of art. Artistic avant-gardes. ITEM 5. Aesthetics and phenomenology. Merleau Ponty and M. Dufrenne. ITEM 6. Aesthetic thinking in hermeneutics. Heidegger and Gadamer. ITEM 7. Critical aesthetic theory: Adorno, W. Benjamin TEMA 8. The ?dehumanizacion? of art in Ortega y Gasset. ITEM 9. Postmodernity and release of the subject. Aesthetic deconstruction. Derrida. ITEM 10. Arthur C. Danto and the end of art
Language: Spanish
Approved Equivalent: PHIL 356
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