Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GERST 6560 - [Aesthetic Theory: The End of Art]

(crosslisted)
(also ARTH 6560 , COML 6560 , PHIL 6951 )
4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

P. Gilgen.

This course investigates the emergence of aesthetics as its own discipline at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the findings of the rationalist and empiricist traditions in aesthetics, Kant’s Critique of Judgment inaugurated a preoccupation in German philosophy with the philosophical status of art and the beautiful. In Romantic theory, art was meant to provide a solution to the philosophical dilemmas in the wake of Kant’s critical philosophy. But already for Hegel, art lost this elevated position. Taking this observation as a guiding thread, the main part of the course is structured around in-depth readings of Kant, Schiller, Schelling, Schlegel, Novalis, Hölderlin, and Hegel. Further readings include critical interventions by contemporary theorists.



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