2017 - 2018

0810-6003-01
  Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art                                         
FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | FACULTY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THE ARTS
Henry UngerMexico - Arts213Wed1000-1200 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  2.0

Course description

Being, in some aspects, a continuation of its predecessor from the previous year, the main purpose of this course is to apply mete-methodological criteria (based on Semiotics and Ingarden's Phenomenology) to the over-ramified and under-typologized map of 20th-Century Aesthetics. As in many other areas (from Physics and Logic to Music and Narratology) so in Aesthetic too, the 20th- century was a spastic geography of iconoclastic upheavals. All Aristotelian and Kantian trends of Objectivist value-judgement were thrown away, for the benefit of pluralistic, partial, relativistic and - generally speaking - subjectivistic approaches. This course adopts several rigorous techniques in a last resort endeavor of rehabilitating objectivist methodes of value-judgement - neo-Aristotelian of a sort, and - so I would claim - not incompatible with contemporary Aestetics.

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