Philosophy Department

Philosophical Aesthetics
(PHLU 3946)

Babette Babich

This course explores the conventionally English, German, and American tradition of philosophical aesthetics.  Readings include Kant’s Critique of Judgment in addition to selected other readings which may include Plato, Aristotle, Lessing, Shaftesbury, Herder, Schiller, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno/Horkheimer, Benjamin, Heidegger, among others.

Van Gogh's Boots with Laces
 (discussed in Heidegger's "On the Origin of the Work of Art")