Event overview
Howard Caygill 'The artist has left the building: Goya meets the Chapmans'
What use Art?
A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality.
October 2011 | April 2012
InC, Continental Philosophy Research Group. University of London | http://www.gold.ac.uk/inc
The seminars will be structured around four main areas:
- Art and philosophy: the first topic interrogates the place philosophy finds for art within its own systems. Why does art often get used to solve questions of ethics, metaphysics and politics, rather than being a question for philosophy in itself?
- Use and validation: the second topic investigates the arguments for art’s validation/non- validation in relation to its description as being either useful/useless (art and education, theory and practice);
- The end of art: the third topic looks at contemporary reading of art’s death, framed in relation to its use;
- Survival: the fourth topic aims to tackle the issue surrounding the survival/non-survival of the arts in our current political environment. What art would have to do, or what use it would need to fulfil to survive, and whether this survival of the arts at all cost is to be considered desirable.
Howard Caygill is Professor Of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University
Selected publications:
Art of Judgment (Oxford, Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1989)
A Kant Dictionary (Oxford, Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1995)
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (London, Routledge, 1998)
Levinas and the Political (London, Routledge, 2002)
Author of published article: 'Über Erfindung und Neuerfindungen der sthetik', Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie (2001)
Author of published article: 'Reading Kant Historically', Radical Philosophy (2001)
Author of published article: 'Perpetual Police: Kosovo and the Elision of Police and Military Violence', European Journal of Social Theory (2001)
Dates & times
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7 Oct 2011 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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