Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics

1. Art and Pleasure: incl. Hume, Mill, Kant, Gadamer 2. Art and Emotion: Tolstoy, Croce, Collingwood 3. Art and Understanding 4. Music and meaning: incl. the implications of digital technology 5. From Painting to Film 6. Poetry and Paraphrase 7. Architecture as an Art 8. Evaluation and the Aesthetics of Nature 9. Theories of Art: incl. Marxism, Lukacs, Levi-Strauss, Derrida