The aim of this module is to investigate central themes in 18th and 19th century aesthetic theory.
Occurrence | Teaching cycle |
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A | Autumn Term 2019-20 |
Subject Content
To investigate central themes in 18th and 19th century aesthetic theory and to provide an understanding of how an aesthetic theory can depend on, and itself help to invigorate, an overall metaphysical theory.
Academic and Graduate Skills
To develop students’ abilities to apply philosophical tools and techniques in order to advance understanding of intellectual problems.
Subject content
By the end of the module:
Academic and graduate skills
Students should be able to engage with a wide range of challenging philosophical ideas, and be able to develop and defend a considered view on wide-ranging and difficult material.
Among the topics to be discussed will be:
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework 4000 word essay |
N/A | 100 |
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Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework 4000 word essay |
N/A | 100 |
Feedback on formative work will be returned two weeks after submission. Feedback on summative work will be returned four weeks after submission.
Francis Hutcheson Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty, including 'Preface' (to both Inquiries)
David Hume 'Of the standard of taste' in his Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary
Thomas Reid Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind, Essay V Chap VII
Immanuel Kant The Critique of Judgement, Part I. (Critique of Aesthetic Judgement)
G W F Hegel Lectures on Fine Art (especially his ‘Introduction’)
Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation, Vol I, Bk III and Vol II, Chaps XXIX-XXXIX
Leo Tolstoy What is Art?