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Philosophy of Art - I                                              Home Page

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PHIL 216 / Course type: Must / National credit:  3  ECTS:  4 / Course semester: 3.

DEPARTMENT

Philosophy

FACULTY MEMBER

Associate. Prof.  Metin BAL

POSTAL ADDRESS

Felsefe Bölümü, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi,

Edebiyat Fakültesi, Öğretim Üyeleri Binası,  Tınaztepe Yerleşkesi,

PK: 35260, Buca - İzmir, Türkiye. Tel: ++ 90 (232) 412 79 03  - dahili tel: 19411, Fax: ++ 90 (232) 453 90 93

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AIMS OF THE COURSE, LEARNING OUTCOMES, LEARNING METHODS, TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS

AIMS OF THE COURSE

 To instruct participants development of philosophy of art

LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE

ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

 Theories of major philosophers concerning aesthetics and philosophy of art

ACQUIRED CAPABILITIES

TEACHING METHODS

Theoretical teaching supported by oral presentations

TEACHING MATERIALS

Recommended textbooks

GRADING AND EVALUATION PROCEDURES FOR THE COURSE

The student will be graded according to one written midterm and one written final exams.

COURSE CONTENTS AND PLANNING

Week

Theory                                                                                                                  

1

What is art?

2

Artist and work of art

3

Hephaistos, Athena, Zeus

4

Apollon and Dionysos

5

Demiourgos

6

Art in ancient India and Budism, Egypt, China and The Book of Dead

7

Art in classical Greek culture

8

Tragedy and Comedy. "Averroes' Search", Jorge Luis Borges

9

Akrapolis 

10

Art in word: Roma

11

Art and Techne

Genius and Sublime

Realism and romantism

Hediegger and philosophy of art

Derrida and postmodern art

Textbooks and Recommended reading

1

Scheer, Brigitte (1997) Einführung in die Philosophische Ästhetik, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

2

Aristoteles  (2003) Poetika (Şiir Sanatı Üstüne) , çev. Samih Rıfat, İstanbul: K Kitaplığı 25.

3

Bernstein, J.M.(1003) Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics, ed,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

4

Berlin, Isaiah (2004) Romantikliğin Kökleri, Güzel Sanatlar Üzerine, hazırlayan: Henry Hardy, çev. Mete Tunçay, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları.

5

Schiller, Frederic (1982) On the Aesthetic Education of Man,  trs. by Wilkinson, E. M, and Villoughby, L. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press.

6

Nietzsche, Friedrich (1988) Die Geburt der Tragödie, Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen I-IV, Nachgelassene Schriften 1870-1873,  München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag

7

Heidegger, Martin, (1991) Nietzsche, Volume I:The Will to Power as Art, Volume II: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Volume III: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics,  tr by David Farrell Krell, Volume IV: Nihilism, tr. by Frank A. Capuzzi,  Harper SanFrancisco

8

Cheney, Sheldon (1958)Expressionism in Art, Revised Edition with 210 illustrations, New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.

9

Crowther, Paul (1996) Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

10

Faden, Gerhard (1986) Der Schein der Kunst, Zu Heideggers Kritik der Ästhetik, Würzburg: Verlag Dr. Johannes Königshausen und Dr. Thomas Neumann.

11

Osborne, Harold (1970) Aesthetics and Art Theory, An Historical Introduction, E.P. Dutton, New York.

12

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, (1975) Truth and Method, NewYork:Seabury Press.

13

Oskay, Ünsal (1985) Estetik ve Politika, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukasc, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson, der. Ünsal Oskay, İstanbul: Eleştiri Yayınları.

14

Hegel G. W. F. (1975) Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art , tr. by T.M.Knox, Vol.I, Oxford: The Clarendon Press.

15

Lukacs, Georg (1979) Goethe and His Age, tr by Robert Anchor, London:  Merlin Press.

16

EXAMS

One written midterm and one written final exams