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Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
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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“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...”Read full review »
PaleRamon via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/09/18
General culture about art
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“I am not sure but my impression is that those lectures are too detailed and long lectures for sider issues of philosophy of art such as forms, poetry, the psychology of the artisans, etc.., you should listen very carefully to find out the core-philosophical essence of the aesthetics. I expect to...”Read full review »
Guncelo via Apple Podcasts ·
Turkey ·
04/21/17
“While I may not be a philosopher nor an aesthetics expert, Dr. Grant provides a wonderfully concise and engaging series on Aesthetics and Art- allowing for an interdisciplinary application of the topic to other realms of academia such as, Geography or Sociology.
The lectures are not only...”Read full review »
theforest via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
03/20/11
Recent Episodes
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his eight and final lecture in the Aesthetics series on Defining Art. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Published 03/15/11
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his seventh lecture in the Aesthetics series on the expression of emotion in music. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Published 03/15/11
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his sixth lecture in the Aesthetics series on the interpretation of literature. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Published 03/15/11
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