Aesthetics
Aesthetics syllabus 2012
General philosophical background
Notes on Plato (347-427 B.C.E.): the Ion; the Symposium; the Republic.
Aristotle on character and tragedy, and Aeschylus and Plato on the shared theme of our common humanity.
David Hume (1711-1776)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976): "The origin of the work of art"; "Building, Dwelling, Thinking"
Heide Göttner-Abendroth, "Nine Principles of a Matriarchal Aesthetic"
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998)
Arthur Danto (1924-)
For internet searches on aesthetics, consider the following.
Journal of Aesthetic Education
American Society for Aesthetics
Contemporary Aesthetics (from the Rhode Island School of Design)
For further searches, I suggest this search engine for academic sites http://www.searchedu.com/ and
the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/
I have created audio files (podcasts) on ksuTube and iTunesU. First,
https://ksutube.kent.edu/showall.php?author=jwattles
Here's a podcast of the first of instructor's lectures on “Bach, Jesus, and Artistic Living.” http://ksutube.kent.edu/playback.php?playthis=4msa3664.
As you attempt to use the following link, you may be prompted to download the most recent version of iTunes. If so, go ahead with the download, and then restart your computer. Use the link again. Once you arrive at the Kent State region of the iTunes network, navigate to the Arts and Sciences icon, click on that, then scroll down and click on the course of mine that you want, then click on the podcast you want, and then it should start up for you.
These lectures were recorded some years ago, and they do not cover all the same material that we are doing this semester; but some students have found them helpful.
Aesthetics https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/kent.edu.1358166115.01358166117