Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0183 - Philosophy, Decoloniality, Art

Contemporary critical theorists such as Gayatri Spivak turn trajectories for ethical and political life, as do recent writers on participatory art. What are the powers and pitfalls of this approach? What shifts do philosophical understandings of art undergo in the emerging views of material existence or culture? What new configurations of reading, form, critique, relationality, singularity, and experience are arising? This course examines major concepts in the history of aesthetics (through Kant, Hegel, Schiller, Dewey, Lispector, Garca Mrquez, and Kincaid), in contemporary philosophy and in critical race feminism (through Spivak, Mignolo, Davis, Schor, and Cheng) to develop positions in the debates currently raging in aesthetics.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research In this course, students are expected to spend 7-8 hours weekly in preparation and work outside of class time.