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| 0618-1059-01 | Introduction to Aesthetics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Aesthetics is the philosophical domain consecrated to beauty and to the pleasure beauty produces. This introductory course will address the question of what makes beauty and pleasure philosophical issues through the relation of beauty to truth in the history of thought about art. The course will include the following topics: the artistic act and its deceptions, the ontological question of how beauty is (as idea or as matter), art as representation and illusion, beauty and aesthetic judgment, image as idea in Romanticism, the plurality of arts, the artist as genius or as “everyman”, the politics of art.