Write short essays to answer the following questions.
Philosophy of Art
Ph 2113: Spring 2020
Write short essays to answer the following questions.
Part One: Answer the following questions (each answer should be about 80-100 words)
1. What distinguishes Kants critical approach to aesthetics and art from the metaphysical ones of Schelling, Hegel, or Nietzsche?
2. Explain the different between an artistic culture and an aesthetic one and how that applies to the modern (post-Enlightenment, democratic) age.
3. Explain the idea of absolute Art as it crystallizes in Schelling, Hegel, or Nietzsche (any one of them is enough).
(Art with a capital A refers to the idea of absolute Art throughout these prompts.)
4. How does modern aesthetics from Kant on reflect ancient tensions of iconophilia and iconoclasm, and of art as imitation and as communication with the beyond, the dead, the invisible, the transcendent?
Part Two: Answer question for each of the three thinkers, Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche. Each answer should be about 250-300 words.
Schelling
5. What is the fundamental paradox or contradiction in Schellings argument for the philosophical superiority of Art to philosophy? What are the implications for Art and for philosophy?
Hegel
6. Explain Hegels thesis of the end of Art in the modern agewhy (and in what sense) Art for us is a thing of the past.
7. Explain Hegels distinction between and sequence of Symbolic, Classical, and Romantic types of art.
8. How does Hegel transform or replace the idea of art as imitation with the idea of expression (or spirit as self-objectifying, self-externalizing, or self-creating)?
Nietzsche
9. Explain Nietzsches distinction between Apollo and Dionysus as symbols of artistic drives, forms of experience, and modes of culture or civilization.
10. Why does the rise of philosophy with Socrates signify the end of the tragic age of the Greeks for Nietzsche?
11. Why does Socratic-Alexandrian culture ultimately lead to a moral crisis that can be resolved, for Nietzsche, only by a rebirth of tragic myth (in the form of Richard Wagners music)?
12. Explain how Nietzsche plays off the visual image and musical imitation or representation against each other (in the Apollonian and the Dionysian) such that music imitates reality (or gives us a re-presentation of being or existence), while the artistic image is the appearance of an appearance, an illusion of perfection.
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