Reconsidering Kant's Aesthetics

Date Cancelled
College
Instructor(s)
Course Code ICH3761HS
NOTE: Graduate degree students enrol in ICH6761HS
Semester Second Semester
Section 0101
Online No
Credits One Credit
Location Toronto (St George Campus)
Description

Until recently, it was customary to regard Kant as the thinker who gave definitive form to the notion of aesthetic judgment and who succeeded in explaining why aesthetic experience is something essentially distinct from other kinds of experience. The postmodern rejection of the practice of aesthetic theory, however, has done much to undermine Kant's position vis-a-vis the arts. This course aims to re-examine Kant's aesthetic theory from the vantage point of the art theoretical literature that preceded it. In an effort to better understand Kant's contribution to the history of thought about art, it will seek to contextualize such "Kantian" themes as judgment, taste, genius, beauty, sublimity and purposiveness. It will also consider to what degree our understanding of Kant has been shaped by later modernist assumptions about the character of his contribution.

Schedule Mon
Start Time 13:30
End Time 16:30
Minimum Enrolment 0
Maximum Enrolment 0
Teaching Method
Seminars
Means of Evaluation
Other
Previously Offered Fall 2011
Currently Offered Winter 2014