Thursday, September 10, 2020

Greek Legacies: Mimesis, Beauty, and Form

Reading: 

Berndt, “Rock Sample”

Prufer, “Providence and Imitation” 

Shiner, “The Greeks Had No Word for It”



Recommended: 

Beech, “Guild Court and Academy”

Davey, “Hermeneutics and Aesthetics”

Fried, “Antiquity Now”

Mersch, “Aesthetic Thinking”

Nehamas, “Plato or Schopenhauer” in Only a Promise of Happiness, 1-12

Newman, “The Specificity of Criticism and its Need for Philosophy”

Wirz, “Shadows of Theory”

[Background: Plato, Ion; Phaedrus; Symposium; Republic; Aristotle, Poetics, etc.]

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