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15 Sep
08 Oct
2020
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Aesthetics, Criticism and Theory (ACT)
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Arun Iyer
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Image: Magritte at his Easel, Duane Michals via DC Moore Gallery
This online intensive postgraduate seminar is an introduction to the conceptual relationship between painting and photography and the questions it raises for the role of art in our time through the works of the iconic 20th-century thinker Michel Foucault. In these eight lectures over one month, we will delve into Foucault’s discussions of the artists Édouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Duane Michals and Gérard Fromanger.
The course will deal exclusively with original texts, looking at the major essays by Foucault on these painters and photographers that have already been translated into English in addition to untranslated interviews and short essays from his collected works Dits et Ecrits (Speeches and Writings).
Reading before class is an essential part of this course. Students will be expected to come prepared for discussion.
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September 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 ; October 1, 6, 8, 2020
Timing: 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Fees
Rs. 6,500
Registrations Closed
Arun Iyer
Prof. Arun Iyer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at IIT Bombay and his first book is Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (Bloomsbury, 2014). He specializes in twentieth-century European philosophy and epistemology, particularly the work of Husserl, Heidegger and Foucault. In 2020-2021, three major new translations by him will be released: Heidegger, Martin, Metaphysics and Nihilism (Cambridge: Polity Press), Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Ethics and Aesthetics in History: The Selected Writing of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Vol II and Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations: The Selected Writing of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Vol II (co-editing and translating with Pol Vandevelde, Bloomsbury Publishing). He received his PhD from Marquette University and was the recipient of several teaching awards.