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Philosophy of a Specific Discipline: Philosophy of Art History

Master

Philosophy of Art History is a specialisation of the MA programme in Philosophy of a Specific Discipline. The two-year Master’s programme in Philosophy of a Specific Discipline is intended for students in a particular academic discipline who are interested in the philosophical foundations and methodological aspects of that discipline.

For information about the objectives and general structure of the programme, the MA thesis and the requirements for graduation, please see the website of the MA in Philosophy of Specific Discipline. For a brief description of this specialisation click on ‘Informatie’ above.

Structure of the programme

First Year

  • 10 EC / MA course in Philosophy

  • 10 EC / MA course in Philosophy

  • 10 EC / Specialist MA course in Philosophy of Art History

  • 30 EC / MA courses in Art History

Second Year

  • 10 EC / Specialist MA course in Philosophy of Art History

  • 10 EC / MA courses in Art History

  • 10 EC / Literature Study in the area of the MA thesis

  • 30 EC / MA thesis

Eerste jaar

Vak EC Semester 1 Semester 2

Choose at least 10 ects worth of these speciality courses this year
Philosophy of Art History I: The Transition from Classical Art to Modern Art 10
Philosophy of Art History II 10

Choose at least two MA courses in total this year
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Language and Semantics 10
Emotion, Cognition and Rationality 10
Filosofie van de literatuur II 10
Filosofie, psychiatrie en neurowetenschappen 10
Free Will and Determinism 10
History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato Timaeus: Science, Nature and Humanity 10
Morality and Rationality 10
Nietzsche and Politics 10
Political Obligation 10
Rationality and Action 10
Rechtvaardige en onrechtvaardige oorlogen. De traditie van de 'justum bellum' 10
Seminar Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: philosophical issues, rhetorical aspects 10
The Great Debate over the Rationality of Science: Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, and the Vienna Circle 10
Truth and Truthfulness 10
Walter Benjamin 10
Wijsgerige antropologie 10
Wijsgerige antropologie IV 10
Wittgensteins Tractatus 10

Tweede jaar

Attentie: naast de cursuslijst zoals hier beneden aangeboden, moet nog voor tenminste 10 ects aan Kunstgeschiedenis master vakken worden gevolgd. Voor de complete lijst van Kunstgeschiedenis vakken die toegankelijk zijn voor niet-Kunstgeschiedenis studenten, klik: Keuzevakken. Daarnaast moet je 10 ects aan literaire studie wijden aan een onderwerp dat te maken heeft met het scriptie onderzoek. Tot slot 30 ects aan scriptie.

Vak EC Semester 1 Semester 2

Choose one of these specialist MA courses
Philosophy of Art History I: The Transition from Classical Art to Modern Art 10
Philosophy of Art History II 10

Meer info

Description

One of the most important questions in the philosophy of art studies today concerns the transition that has taken place at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century of an academic-classical orientation to what since then has been called modern art. A similar transition has occurred in philosophy as well. In many respects philosophy of life and phenomenology can be compared with the revolutionary movements of impressionism and cubism.

What is the impact of this transition? What does it mean? What are its motives? Are both art and philosophy searching for new ways to come to terms with life in a constantly expanding reality? The study of art will profit by the critique of metaphysics in Nietzsche, for instance, his return to the tragic experience of the Greeks, as well as by the history of philosophical aesthetics since Kant up to Heidegger and modern French philosophers. The destruction of the traditional aesthetic concept of art, accomplished by these philosophers, reflects the way in which art itself has changed.

Specialisation co-ordinator

Dr. G.T.M. (Gerard) Visser
g.t.m.visser@phil.leidenuniv.nl