Aesthetic concepts of artists and their critics, in context of historical events and social and political changes. First of a two-semester course dealing with logical, philosophical and methodological issues in the historical, social and natural sciences. The period covered is from the late seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth. Second and concluding semester of readings in fundamental texts dealing with issues in logic, philosophy and the methodologies of the historical, social and natural sciences, from the late nineteenth century to the present. There is no text.
Readings are from original sources.
C.E. Art, religion, mythology, literature, philosophy, caste system. Works by Conrad, Kate Chopin, Joyce, Sartre, Hesse. Topics in the Humanities. Topics in the Humanities. Historical Foundations of Modern Education.