72ΦΣ78 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS (PPP441 (72ΦΣ78))

Students of the Department of German Literature and all those selecting the course FS 78, will be introduced in the history and meaning of Aesthetics as a branch of philosophical inquiry starting from the 18^th century. There will be examination of its relation to the philosophy of art, of the state of art and of main concepts like those of imitation, image, representation, expression, creativity, aesthetic values, aesthetics and ethics, nature and environment, technology, mind, action, truth and reality, imagination, aesthetic experience. Other major issues of the course introduction will be the aesthetic theory of Baumgarten, Kant , Schiller, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heideger, Adorno, Wittgesnstein; the examination of aesthetic categories, the aesthetic reception and the criteria of evaluating the work of art. The views of Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas on modernity and postmodernism will also be examined briefly.

Interactive seminar will focus on performing arts and the philosophy of the actor' s agency on stage on the basis of texts by Diderot, Kleist, Nietzsche, Stanislavski, Brecht, Grotowski, theatre examples of Beckett, Muller, Terzopoulos et a.

Main books and study materials as well as examination (oral or written) materials will be selected parts of the following books available to the students:

-Ιmm. Kant, Critique of Judgement (in the original and/or greek or english translation) and

-Ath. Leontsini, Introduction to Aesthetics (in greek lang.)

Additionally there will be analytical bibliography concerning the interactive seminar about the performing arts and their philosophy; students will be provided with proposed subjects of papers to be occasionally counted as exemptional from exams after selection and individual tutorials with the teacher, Mrs Anna Lazou.

There will be one hour of introduction by the teacher plus one hour of interactive seminar on the basis of preselected texts, available to the students through photocopies and previous announcements in the internet.

Students will be provided with extra bibliography, notes and links on the particular subject of the performing arts and the actor's agency on stage.

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Bibliography iN English with access at the Philosophy Library of the 7th floor

ENGLISH

Cahn – Meskin (eds), Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology, Blackwell, 2008

Cazeaux (ed.), The Continental Aesthetics Reader, RKP, 2011

Hospers, Introductory Readings in Aesthetics, Macmillan, 1969

Kivy, The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, Blackwell, 2004

Levinson, The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, OUP, 2005

Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, Dover, 1955

Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics, Rowman, 2000

------------- (ed.), Analytic Aesthetics, Blackwell, 1989

A Companion to Aesthetics, Blackwell, 2009