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| 0618-3429-01 | Art and Politics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Course Objectives: Introducing ideas from the history of western philosophy concerning the relations and affinities between art and politics.
Course Topics: Relevant discussions of Plato, Rousseau, Heine, Marx, Breton, Brecht, Camus, Adorno and others, but mainly Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) and Marcuse's The Aesthetic Dimension (1978).
Method of Teaching: Introductory lectures, guided reading, classroom discussion and personal tutoring for writing seminar papers.
A Bibliography of primary and secondary literature will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
Student Assignment: A seminar or referat paper.