Category: Philosophy

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…

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

          ‘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…

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                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 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 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…