Unit 1: Kant
Assignments1
DueSeptember 11
Week 1.1: Introduction to the third Critique
Course note
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, First Introduction | 431–434 |
Week 1.2: Introduction (cont’d)
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, Introduction | 18–20, 26–32 |
Week 2.1: The beautiful
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Analytic of the Beautiful” | 45–46, 51–68, 76–78, 85–90 |
Week 2.2: The sublime
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Analytic of the Sublime” | 97–100, 103–117, 124–126 |
Week 3.1: The deduction
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Deduction,” pt. 1 | 141–144, 150–163 | |
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Deduction,” pt. 2 | 170–176, 179–189 |
Week 3.2: The dialectic
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Dialectic” | 209–214 |
Unit 2: Commentary
Assignments1
DueOctober 2
Week 4.1: Commentary, pt. 1
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Heidegger, Nietzsche | all | |
| Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals | all |
Week 4.2: Commentary, pt. 2
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Gadamer, Truth and Method, pt. 1 | 37–49 |
Week 5.1: Commentary, pt. 3
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Gadamer, Truth and Method, pt. 2 | 102–125 (102–119) | |
| Gadamer, “The Relevance of the Beautiful” | 17–22, 29–47 (17–22, 39–47) |
Week 5.2: Commentary, pt. 4
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Lyotard, Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime | 147–158 |
Week 6.1: Commentary, pt. 5
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Derrida, The Truth in Painting (excerpt) | all |
Week 6.2: Commentary, pt. 6
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Derrida, “Economimesis” | all |
Unit 3: Appropriation
Assignments1
DueOctober 30
Week 7.1: Appropriation, pt. 1
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Adorno, Aesthetic Theory Lectures 17–21 | all | |
| Adorno, Aesthetic Theory Lectures 1–5 | all |
Week 7.2: Appropriation, pt. 2
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, pt. 1 | all |
Week 8.1: Appropriation, pt. 3
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, pt. 2 | all |
Week 8.2: Appropriation, pt. 4
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy | all | |
| Zerilli, ‘We Feel Our Freedom’ | all |
Week 9.1: Appropriation, pt. 5
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Lyotard, “The Sublime And The Avant Garde” | all | |
| Lyotard, “What Is Postmodernism?” | all |
Week 9.2: Appropriation, pt. 6
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Nancy, “The Sublime Offering” | all |
Week 10.1: Appropriation, pt. 7
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| De Man, “Kant And Schiller” | all | |
| De Man, “Phenomenality And Materiality” | all |
Week 10.2: Appropriation, pt. 8
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Ranciere, “The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes” | all | |
| Ranciere, “The Distribution of the Sensible” | all |
Unit 4: Teleology
Assignments1
DueNovember 6
Week 11.1: Teleology, pt. 1
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique of Judgment, “Teleology” | all | |
| Jonas, Phenomenon Of Life | all |
Week 11.2: Teleology, pt. 2
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Canguilhem, Knowledge of Life | all | |
| Weber and Varela, “Life after Kant” | all |
Unit 5: Rejection
Assignments1
DueNovember 20
Week 12.1: Rejection, pt. 1
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Levinas, “Reality and Its Shadow” | all |
Week 12.2: Rejection, pt. 2
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical (excerpt) | all | |
| Deleuze, Kant’s Critical Philosophy (excerpt) | all |
Week 13.1: Rejection, pt. 3
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Bourdieu, Distinction | all |
Week 13.2: Rejection, pt. 4
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Armstrong, Effects of Blackness | all | |
| Lloyd, “Under Representation” | all |
Unit 6: Unconscious reception
Assignments1
DueNovember 24
Week 14.1: Unconscious reception, pt. 1
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Gadamer, Truth and Method, pt. 3 | all |
Week 15.1: Unconscious reception, pt. 2
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Greenberg, “Modernist Painting” | all | |
| Husserl, Letter to Hofmannsthal | all | |
| Marquard, “Kant and the Turn to Aesthetics” | all |
Unit 7: The historiography of the reception
Assignments1
DueDecember 1
Week 15.2: Historiography, pt. 1
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Schaeffer, Art of the Modern Age, pt. 1 | all | |
| Schaeffer, Art of the Modern Age, pt. 2 | all |
Week 16.1: Historiography, pt. 2
| Reading | Read | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Bernstein, The Fate Of Art | all | |
| Cascardi, Consequences of Enlightenment | all |