Aesthetics

Date	Reading, Assignment Due	Optional Readings
T - Sept 7 & R - 9	Intro – no readings
T - 14	Dewey 1 “The Live Creature”
R - 16	Dewey 2 “The Live Creature and Ethereal Things”	[R] Foucault The Order of Things 1.1 “Las Meninas” 3-16
T - 21	[C] Gibson – Ecological Approach to Visual Perception 7-44. [R] Jonas The Phenomenon of Life Sixth Essay “The Nobility of Sight” 135-56 Minor Essay - Painting	[C] Gibson 12 “Looking with the Head and the Eyes” 203-222; [R] Jonas The Phenomenon of Life Fourth Essay “To Move and To Feel’ 7-26
R - 23	Dewey 3 “Having and Experience	[R] Scott Lives of Things 1 “Facts and Astonishments”
T - 28	Dewey 11 “The Human Contribution” Abram 1 “Ecology of Magic”
R - 30	Abram 2 “Philosophy on the Way to Ecology”
T - Oct 5	[C] Hildebrand Preface and 1, Aesthetics of Survival [C] Varela, Thompson and Rosch 2 “What do we mean by ‘human experience’?” Major Essay - 20 site descriptions
R - 7	Dewey 4 “The Act of Expression”
T - 12	Dewey 5 “The Expressive Object and 6 “Substance and Form” Minor essay - Music
R - 14	Dewey 7 “The Natural History of Form”
T - 19	NO CLASS - fall break	----------------
R - 21	Dewey 8 “The Organization of Energies”
T - 26	Dewey 9 “The Common Substance of the Arts” and 10 “The Varied Substance of the Arts”
R - 28	[C] Aesthetics - Aristotle Poetics 20-43	[C] Petrini Slow Food: The Case for Taste 3 “Educating and Learning” [C]Almond in Utne “where have all the candy bars gone?
T - Nov 2	[C] Aesthetics - Kant excerpts from Critique of Judgment 117-141 Minor Essay - Gustatory	[C] Berry from What are People For? “The Pleasures of Eating 145-52
R - 4	[C] Aesthetics - Nietzsche excerpts from The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music 179-87	[C] Epicurus in Classics of Moral and Political Theory “Letter to Menoeceus” and “Principal Doctrines” 359-64
T - 9	[C] Aesthetics - Bell “The Aesthetic Hypothesis” 255-69 [C] Aesthetics - Dickie “The myth of the Aesthetic Attitude” 307-21	[C] Aesthetics “Aesthetics in the 20^th Century and Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” 271-95.
R - 11	[C] McDermott The Culture of Experience 3 “Deprivation and Celebration” 82-98	Dewey 13 “Criticism and Perception” and 14 “Art and Civilization”
T - 16	Abram 3 “The Flesh of Language” 73-92 and 5 “In the Landscape of Language” 137-80	Abram 4 “Animism and the Alphabet” 93-137
R - 18	Abram 6 “Time, Space, and the Eclipse of the Earth” 181-224	[C] Berry from What are People For? “Economy and Pleasure” 129-44
T - 23	Abram 7 “The Forgetting and Remembering of the Air” and Coda: Turning Inside Out 225-75 Minor essay - Total Experience	[C] McDermott 6 “Feeling as Insight” 150-78
R - 25	NO CLASS - Thanksgiving holiday	-----------------
T - 30	Alexander The Nature of Order, volume one, The Phenomenon of Life 1-108	[C] Pallasmaa Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses 6-51
R - Dec 2	Alexander The Nature of Order, volume one, The Phenomenon of Life 110-242 Major Essay - Aesthetic Inventory	Alexander The Nature of Order, volume one, The Phenomenon of Life 244-296
T - 7	Alexander The Nature of Order, volume one, The Phenomenon of Life 299-402	[C] Hiss The Experience of Place 1 “Simultaneous Perception” and 2 “Connectedness”
R - 9	Alexander The Nature of Order, volume one, The Phenomenon of Life 403-57 Abstract
F - Dec 17, 9am	FINAL class meeting	--------------------------