2021-2022 / PHIL0032-1

Aesthetics and phenomenology

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

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

Lecturer

Rudy Steinmetz

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

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

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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, hybrid learning)

Length and period : 30 hours, 2nd quadrimester. Location and schedule : Philo I room, Tuesday from 14h to 16h.

Recommended or required readings

None.

Assessment methods and criteria

Any session :

- In-person

written exam

- Remote

written work

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred remote


Additional information:

Written work (May-June and August-September).

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

None.

Contacts

Official instructor Rudy Steinmetz, Professor Department of Philosophy 7, Place du 20 Août, 2nd floor, 4000 Liège Tel. : 04/366.55.64. E-mail : R.Steinmetz@ulg.ac.be