Welcome to The Making. This is the webslog (website + blog) for Discussion Section 29011, which meets MWF 1:00-1:50 in HH 224. My name is Erin Trapp and I am your discussion instructor. Please refer to the blog for information and assignments, and always feel free to post comments. You will occasionally be asked to post responses here. My office hours are in HIB 192, Wednesday 12-1 and Friday 10-11, and by appointment.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Gershwin, Porgy and Bess
Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
HCC Reader 85-133 (German docs II)
HCC Reader 35-84 (German documents)
Albierti, On Painting, preface, chapters 2 & 3
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Reader, chapter 11 "Genre"
Reader, chapter 14 "Analyzing Drama"
Reader, chapter 13 "Textual Analysis"
Reader, chapter 12 "The Active Reading Process"
Meanings
aesthetic (source: Online Etymology Dictionary) 1798, from Ger. ästhetisch or Fr. esthétique, both from Gk. aisthetikos "sensitive," from aisthanesthai "to perceive, to feel," from PIE *awis-dh-yo-, from base *au- "to perceive." Popularized in Eng. by translation of Immanuel Kant, and used originally in the classically correct sense "the science which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception." Kant had tried to correct the term after Baumgarten had taken it in Ger. to mean "criticism of taste" (1750s), but Baumgarten's sense attained popularity in Eng. c.1830s (despite scholarly resistance) and removed the word from any philosophical base. Walter Pater used it (1868) to describe the late 19c. movement that advocated "art for art's sake," which further blurred the sense. Aesthete first recorded 1881.
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