PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2015-16 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
BACKGROUND READING AND TEXTBOOKS
Primary text:
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Hegel, G.W.F., Aesthetics: lectures on fine art, trans. T.M. Knox, 2 vols., Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1975.
Recommended secondary texts:
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Houlgate, Stephen, ed., Hegel and the Arts, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
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Maker, William, ed., Hegel and Aesthetics, Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
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Rutter, Benjamin, Hegel on the Modern Arts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Other recommended texts:
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Bowie, Andrew, Aesthetics and Subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche (1990), Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2003.
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Bungay, Stephen, Beauty and Truth: a Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1984.
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Danto, Arthur C., After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997.
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Desmond, William, Art and the Absolute. A Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics, Albany: SUNY Press,
1986.
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Hammermeister, Kai, The German Aesthetic Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
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Kaminsky, Jack, Hegel on Art. An Interpretation of Hegel’s Aesthetics, Albany: SUNY Press,
1962.
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Pippin, Robert B., After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Roche, Mark William, Tragedy and Comedy. A Systematic Study and a Critique of Hegel,
Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
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Winfield, Richard Dien, Stylistics. Rethinking the Artforms after Hegel, Albany: SUNY Press,
1996.