Philosophy Cafe: Nietzsche next

We had a lively discussion of the first part of Kant's Critique of Judgment yesterday afternoon. For December 17 we're reading Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music. Barnes and Noble sells an inexpensive in-house edition ($7.95).

As a follow-up on Kant, I'd like to refer some of you to his brief essay What is Enlightenment? ( http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/kant.html ) in support of my assertion that freedom is the key notion for understanding Kant. It will also be comforting to many of us that he associates freedom with maturity.

In any case, the remianing schedule for our philosophy of art sequence is included below.

Good reading,
Bill

December 17: Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, 1871
January 14, 2007: Clive Bell, Art, 1914
February 18: Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art, 1934
March 18: John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934
April 15: Suzanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key, 1942
May 20: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art, 1943
June 17: Stanley Cavell, Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare, 2d ed, 2003 (1969)
July 15: Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art, 1976
August 19: James Clifford, On Ethnographic Surrealism, 1981, and Michel Foucault, This Is Not a Pipe, 1983, at the Menil
September 16: Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production, 1993
October 21: Arthur Danto, After the End of Art, 1997
November 18: Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, 1999
December 16: Cynthia Freeland, But Is It Art?, 2001
January 2008: Jean Buadrillard, The Conspiracy of Art, 2005
February 2008: Esther Pazstory, Thinking with Things, 2005
March 2008: Colin McGinn, The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact, 2005

Philosophy Cafe Readings for Philosophy of Art

Here is the complete list of planned readings, as of today:

• August 20: Plato, Phaedrus
• September 17: Aristotle, Poetics
• October 15: Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 1757
• November 19: Kant, Critique of Judgment, First Part: Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment, 1790
• December 17: Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, 1871
• January 14, 2007: Clive Bell, Art, 1914
• February 18: Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art, 1934
• March 18: John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934
• April 15: Suzanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key, 1942
• May 20: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art, 1943
• June 17: Stanley Cavell, Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare, 2d ed, 2003 (1969)
• July 15: Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art, 1976
• August 19: James Clifford, On Ethnographic Surrealism, 1981, and Michel Foucault, This Is Not a Pipe, 1983, at the Menil
• September 16: Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production, 1993
• October 21: Arthur Danto, After the End of Art, 1997
• November 18: Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, 1999
• December 16: Cynthia Freeland, But Is It Art?, 2001
• January 2008: Jean Buadrillard, The Conspiracy of Art, 2005
• February 2008: Esther Pazstory, Thinking with Things, 2005
• March 2008: Colin McGinn, The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact, 2005