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Study programmes 2011-2012Last update : 14/06/2012
PHIL0032-1  Esthetics

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Master in Philosophy, Teaching Focus, 1st yearSecond semester5
Master in Philosophy, Research Focus, 1st yearSecond semester5
Master in PhilosophySecond semester5
Lecturer :  Rudy Steinmetz
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Course contents :  
Study of phenomenological aesthetics (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty) and its critical questioning (Deleuze, Lyotard, Didi-Huberman).
Learning outcomes of the course :  
To allow students to increase their knowledge about one of the most important currents of the history of philosophy in the 20th century ; to confront phenomenological aesthetics, on one hand, with the reality of artistic production that it intends to explain, but which nonetheless escapes the conceptual control of phenomenology; and on the other hand with the work of thinkers who, drawing inspiration from phenomenological aesthetics, have developed it until they encountered its limits.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
None.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Writing a paper concerning one of the aspects of the theme of the course.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Length and period : 30 hours, 2nd quadrimester.
Location and schedule : Philo I room, Tuesday from 14h to 16h.

See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
Recommended or required readings :  
None.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written examination (May-June and August-September).
Organizational remarks :  
None.
Contacts :  
Official instructor
Rudy Steinmetz, instructor
Department of Philosophy
7, Place du 20 Août, 2nd floor, office number 2/36A, 4000 Liège
Tel. : 04/366.55.64.
E-mail : R.Steinmetz@ulg.ac.be


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