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