This class exists in these courses :
• USCHOOL - Licence 1 Pluridisciplinaire Projet Personnel - Option Santé - S1 - 3 ECTS
  USCHOOL - Licence 1 Pluridisciplinaire Projet Personnel - S1 - 3 ECTS
  Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Licence 2 Métiers de la Culture et des Arts - S3 - 3 ECTS

Learning outcomes

To get to know the main texts
concerning aesthetics from classical Antiquity to the present day, and to
acquire an accurate technical vocabulary in aesthetics. By
the end of the course, students should be able to comment on a philosophical
text and put it in its context, comparing it with other texts of a similar
theme.

Course description

Reading and analysing the most important
texts on aesthetics from Plato to contemporary philosophers.

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What defines a work of art?

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From where does the artist draw his/her imagination?

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What is beauty?

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How to judge the worth of a work of art.

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The mimesis

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Recommended reading

• Aristote, Poétique.
  Benjamin, L’œuvre d’art à l’ère de sa reproductibilité, technique.||
  Bergson, La pensée et le mouvant, Essais, et conférences, V. La perception du changement||
  Hegel, Esthétique||
  Hegel, Introduction à l'Esthétique||
  Heidegger Chemins qui ne mènent, nulle part||
  Hume, Essais, esthétiques||
  Kant, Critique, de la faculté de juger,||
  Merleau, Ponty, L’œil et l’esprit.||
  Malraux, Le musée imaginaire.||
  Nietzsche, Naissance de la, tragédie||
  Platon, La, république X, Le banquet, Phèdre,, Hippias.||
  Wilde, le déclin du mensonge.||
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