The Truth of Art: Introduction to German Idealist Aesthetics

Ministrante: Prof. Peter Kenneth Dews (University of Essex)

Idioma em que o curso será ministrado: Inglês

Objetivo: The aim of the course is to introduce students to the tradition in the philosophy of art which begins with Kant and continues with the major German Idealists, Schelling and Hegel. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of this tradition is the claim that aesthetic experience is a mode of access to metaphysical truth. This is clearly a highly controversial claim, and it will be critically examined in the light of more recent, alternative conceptions of the nature and function of art. The final part of the course will examine Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory. Adorno’s philosophy of art is highly significant and instructive in this context, since it both preserves key insights of the Idealist tradition and yet also offers a critique of this tradition, in the light of the modernist art of the twentieth century.

Programa do curso:
Day 1: Kant’s Critique of Judgment and  his theory of aesthetic experience
Day 2: Art as an expression of the absolute in Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism and in his Philosophy of Art
Day 3: Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics and the meaning of his conception of the ‘end of art’
Day 4: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory as a continuation and critique of German Idealist aesthetics

Bibliografia:

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment (Oxford University Press, 2009)
F. W. J. Schelling, The Philosophy of Art (University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
G. W. F. Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Penguin, 1993)
Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (Blloomsbury, 2013)
Henry E. Allison, Kant’s Theory of Taste (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Sebastian Gardner, ‘The Romantic-Metaphysical Theory of Art’, in European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 3, December 2002
Benjamin Rutter, Hegel and the Modern Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Lambert Zuidervaart, Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion (MIT Press, 1993)

(A more extensive bibliography will be provided prior to the course)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Dias 6, 7, 8 e 9 de abril de 2021, das 14:00 às 17:30 (on-line). O link para acesso às aulas será enviado por e-mail aos alunos inscritos.

Gratuito.

De 23 de março a 01 de abril de 2021.

Link para inscrição: http://ccint.fflch.usp.br/summer_school_inscricoes

Vagas: 80 (por ordem de inscrição)