| Catalog Content |
The transformation of the concept of art from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance; the concepts of inventio and genius; Petrarch and humanism; the relationship between art and philosophy in the Renaissance; an introduction to Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics, the Critique of Pure Reason, and the Critique of Judgment; the judgment of beauty, the sublime, and aesthetic alienation; art and the sublime in Romantic thought; Friedrich Nietzsche’s Apollonian and Dionysian conception of art; Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of art, The Origin of the Work of Art, and the relationship between art and truth. |