PHIL0032-1 : Esthetics

Study Programmes 2015-2016

PHIL0032-1

Esthetics

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Master in philosophy (120 ECTS)		5
Master in philosophy (60 ECTS)		5

Lecturer :

Rudy Steinmetz

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

Study of phenomenological aesthetics (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Henry) and its critical questioning (Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard).

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

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