Starts on Thursday 11 April, 19.30 – 21.30, Karl Dittrichzaal, SSC, Bonnefantenstraat 2, René Gabriëls, PhD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UM
What is art? In what ways do aesthetic and non-aesthetic experiences differ? Does an art work have to be beautiful? Does art have something to do with ethics or politics? What about the beauty of nature? These and other questions are the topic of the philosophy of art, or aesthetics.
In this series you will be introduced to the philosophy of art of, amongst others, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Lyotard and Derrida. Their ideas will be explained using examples from architecture, the visual arts, literature and music. The individual lectures:
1. Beauty and the Sublime (11 April)
2. Ethics and Aesthetics (18 April)
3. Nature and Culture (25 April)
4. Aesthetic Truth (16 May)
5. Postmodernism (23 May)
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