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Category: Aesthetics

  • Aristotle: Poetics – My Notes (TRM’s notes)

      Poetics Stageira, Macedonia Ethics Poetics Introduction Aristotle was much admired in the ancient world for the elegance and clarity of his style. Unfortunately, the writings which earned him that esteem have not survived. Notes (perhaps in many cases lecture notes) in general the style is cryptic, condensed and elusive Aristotle’s ideas on poetry The…

  • Ritual Art and Knowledge (TRM’s high-lites) by Williams and Boyd

    Ritual Art and Knowledge                                R. Williams and W. Boyd Preface noetic Theories of metaphor Theodore Jennings – a difference of analysis Dastur Dr. Firoze M. Kotwal Zoroaster Yasna Avesta Chapter I  a) Art and Ritual Albert Camus: art as an instrument…

  • Michael Inwood’s Commentary for Hegel’s ‘Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics’ (TRM’s notes)

    Commentary on Hegel’s ‘Introductory Lectures on  Aesthetics’                            Michael Inwood Commentary –         The Latine Aesthetica –         German as Asthetik –         A.G. Baumgarten (1714-62) in ‘Metaphysica’ and ‘Aesthetica’ (1750) from the Greek aisthanaesthai: ‘to perceive’ –         Crafts and to the seven liberal arts of…

  • Hegel’s “Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics” (TRM’s notes)

    Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics                                   by Hegel Introduction                                             by Michael Inwood Art in Hegel’s Germany –         Stuttgart –         Johann…

  • “The Origin of the Work of Art’ Martin Heidegger (TRM’s notes)

              ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’                     Heidegger “Only image formed keeps the vision – Yet image formed rests in the poem.” Introduction –         As Marleau-Ponty does of Cezanne –         Truth as ‘aletheia’ or unconcealment –         When Heidegger examines and describes Van Gogh’s painting of some (peasant?) shoes –         Friedrich…

  • David Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays” (TRM’s notes)

    Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays      by David Hume Introduction –         As a philosophical critic, Hume has few peers. No one has challenged more sharply rationalism’s central thesis that matters of fact can be known without recourse to experience; nor has anyone revealed more clearly the severe problems raised by insisting that…

  • “Art as Experience” John Dewey’s 1931 Harvard lectures (TRM’s notes)

    Art as Experience                by John Dewey Preface: –          1931 Harvard –          Dr. Meyer Schapiro –          Dr. Joseph Ratner –          Dr. A.C. Barnes “The Live Creature”       chpt.1 –          Ironic perversities –          Opaque –          geographers and geologists –          Appreciation –          Parthenon –          Understand –          Coleridge –          Pleasurable activity of the journey…

  • ‘Illuminations’ by Walter Benjamin [TRM’s notes]

    Illuminations    by Walter Benjamin Introduction by Hannah Arendt Introduction: –          Marxist –          Jewish –          What seems paradoxical about everything that is justly called beautiful is the fact that it appears. –          The flaneur –          Angel of history has his face turned towards the past –          Klee’s ‘Angela Novus’ –          The allegorical representation of death by…

  • Adorno’s ‘Theory of Aesthetics’

    Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Intro – translator’s intro – Hegel – Kierkegaard – Benjamin’s ‘Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ – Proust’s ‘Swann’s Way’ – Figaro – Stefan George – Para tactical capacity – ‘Situation’ chpt 2 – Aesthetic – The impulse to pick up the sacred threads of what was just fascist in Germany’s…