Technological Reproducibility: Walter Benjamin

Reading: 

Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (full text available online)

Recommended: 

Adorno, The Culture Industry

Emerling, “An Art History of Means” 

Frisby, “Simmel’s Streetscape of Modernity”

Markus, “Walter Benjamin and the German Reproduction Debate” 

Wilson, “Dialectical Aesthetics and the Kantian Rettung”

One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (Dir: John Hughes, 1993)

 https://vimeo.com/26821212

Art and the Truths of Art History

 

Reading: 

Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art” in Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought

Recommended: 

Taminiaux, “The Origin of the Origin of the Work of Art”

Bernasconi, “The Greatness of the Work of Art”

Babich, “From Van Gogh’s Museum to the Temple at Bassae”

“Aesthetic Science”

Reading: 

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy 

Recommended: 

Babich, “Nietzsche and Beethoven”

Bishop and Stephenson, “Nietzsche and Weimar Aesthetics”

del Caro, “Dionysian Classicism”

Stoll, “Nietzsche and Schiller on Aesthetic Semblance”

The Philosopher and the Analytic End of Art

Reading: Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 

Recommended: 

Bourdieu, “The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic”

Gjesdal, “Hegel and Herder on Art, History, and Reason”

Danto, “Hegel on the End of Art”

Judgment Powers

Reading: Kant, “Analytic of the Beautiful,” Critique of the Power of Judgment

Recommended: 

Caygill, “Taste and Civil Society”

Kulenkampff, “The Objectivity of Taste”

van Gerwen, “Kant’s Regulative Principle of Aesthetic Excellence”

Wood, “Aesthetics in the Kantian Project”

‘Standards’

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Reading: 

Hume, “Of the Standard of Taste” 

in: Babich, ed., Reading Hume’s ›Of the Standard of Taste‹

Ancillary:

Allan Ramsay's Enlightenment: or, Hume and the Patronizing Portrait

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.]