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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Crowbar Man

Very good but not polished

This is a very good course, especially in how it summarizes important concepts in philosophy. Although the lecturer is very knowledgeable, the delivery of the lectures is not as smooth and engaging as it could be. It’s as if he’s reading the information rather than painting a big picture while offering a skillful perspective that I would expect from an Oxford professor.
ALA2019

Good start

I will be a student at Oxford University this coming term and taking Aesthetics as my primary tutorial. I have never formally studied Aesthetics before, so this series of lectures was a good introduction into this multifaceted topic.
PaleRamon

Astonishingly bad

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 as a dramatic dialogue. Superficial, dogmatic, misinformative. You’d be better off just reading the Wikipedia article than getting an intro to aesthetics here.
rickeychick

aesthetics and PHilosophy of at Lectures

This is an amazing collection. Although I am not a philosophy major, the ability of Professor Grant to make this subject relevant is truly a gift .

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