Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
By Oxford University
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Description
Lecture series on Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. The first part of the series focuses on some of the most important writings on art and beauty in the Western philosophical tradition, covering Plato, Aristotle, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. The second part of the series focuses on questions about understanding works of art and about the nature of art. This part examines the interpretation of literature, the expression of emotion in music, and the definition of art
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Clean8. Defining Art | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his eight and final lecture in the Aesthetics series on Defining Art. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean7. Musical Expression | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his seventh lecture in the Aesthetics series on the expression of emotion in music. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean6. Literary Interpretation | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his sixth lecture in the Aesthetics series on the interpretation of literature. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean5. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 2 | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford concludes his discussion of Kant's Critique of Judgement in the fifth lecture of the Aesthetics series. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1 | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his fourth lecture in the Aesthetics series on Kant's Critique of Judgement. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean3. Hume and the Standard of Taste | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean2. Aristotle's Poetics | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his second lecture in the Aesthetics series on Aristotle's Poetics. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean1. Plato's Philosophy of Art | James Grant, lecturer in philosop-hy, University of Oxford gives his first lecture in the Aesthetics series on Plato's philosophy of Art. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Good start
I will be a student at Oxford University this coming term and taking Aesthetics as my primary tutorial. I have never formally studied Aesthetics before, so this series of lectures was a good introduction into this multifaceted topic.
Very good but not polished
This is a very good course, especially in how it summarizes important concepts in philosophy. Although the lecturer is very knowledgeable, the delivery of the lectures is not as smooth and engaging as it could be. It’s as if he’s reading the information rather than painting a big picture while offering a skillful perspective that I would expect from an Oxford professor.
Astonishingly bad
I really can’t believe how astonishingly bad these lectures are. He reads Plato like an instruction manual, taking for granted Socrates’ complaints (which he outright conflates with Plato’s) against drama, poetry, etc., without once stopping to consider WHY Plato would choose to write all of this as a dramatic dialogue. Superficial, dogmatic, misinformative. You’d be better off just reading the Wikipedia article than getting an intro to aesthetics here.
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