Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this module, students will have:
• A broad understanding of philosophical approaches to art in the continental tradition
• Developed their own capacity to interpret artworks as cultural objects produced at specific socio-historical moments
• Interrogated the relationship between art and political power.
Indicative Module Content:
The course will begin with an overview of classic texts on theories of fine art to provide students with a grounding in aesthetics. It will then primarily focus on twentieth and twenty-first century European philosophers such as: Adorno, Arendt, Berger, Butler, de Certeau, Derrida, Ecco, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. These thinkers will be read together with case studies of sorts such as paintings, plays, podcasts and so on.