FILO-1471A Philosophy and Arts
The course is intended to make a historic review the philosophical art proposals that have increasingly influenced the discussions about this topic. The course begins with the most classical ideas of Plato and Aristhoteles, who keep being a point of reference in modern thinking. The first objective is to address what it is known in philosophical history as "aesthetics". Then, the course approaches the central problem of aesthetics in the 18th century, and the problem of taste through authors as Winckelmann, Hume and Kant, and continues with proposals that open new relation possibilities between arts and philosophy: Schiller, Hegel and Nietzsche. The final section ends with some approaches to contemporary aesthetics, based on the challenges of non-figurative arts, among them, the theory of Worringer, the ideas of Kandinsky and Klee, and the proposals of Gadamer about the experience of arts.
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