Lehrende/r: Dr. Gerad Gentry
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: PS Aesthetics
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 1 | 20
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Seminarleitung: Prof. Dr. Gerad GENTRY (Lewis University, Chicago; DAAD-Gastdozentur) TERMINE & ORGANISATION Fr, 8 Oktober 2021, 14-16 | Thematische Einführung, Verteilung der Referate, Logistik Fr, 19 November 2021, 09:00-18:00 | Seminarsitzungen: Referate und Diskussionen der Texte Sa, 20 November 2021, 09:00-18:00 | Seminarsitzungen: Referate und Diskussionen der Texte Fr, 10 Dezember 2021, 14-16 | Vorbereitung auf die Hausarbeit
Inhalt: 1789 to 1829 in Germany saw a dynamic confluence in the fine arts, natural sciences, and philosophy. German romanticism was one of the movements at the heart of this convergence. It is a movement characterized by the sense that aesthetics and nature mutually form self-conscious life. In German romanticism, art and nature become constitutive of true education. This course will explore the philosophical questions central to this movement with special focus on the emergent structures and methodologies that characterize romanticism. Our texts will be selected from the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Friedrich von Hardenberg, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, as well as from some contemporary scholars (Dalia Nassar, Fred Beiser, Eckart Förster, and David Wellbery). We will also discuss relevant works of art by concomitant and contemporaneous artists like Beethoven and J.M.W. Turner. We will pay particular attention to the impact of Rhine Romanticism and the Rhine Valley landscape (broadly conceived from Heidelberg to Köln) on the formation of the German romantics, which inspired most of these individuals and was home to many of them at some point in their lives. In the Rhine Valley, we will look to historical products of mutual formation by nature and art embodied uniquely in seminal architectural ruins of the time such as the Wernerkapelle in Bacharach and the Burg Rheinstein.
