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Course Description

Can the ability to recognize beauty - in a person, a painting, a poem - make you a better person? Is there a necessary or even causal link between beauty and justice? While these ideas may seem outrageous today, a number of writers in the late 18th and 19th centuries argued that there was an intimate connection between the perception of the beautiful and of the good.

This subject explores variations on the proposition that an adequate recognition of beauty could, however indirectly, make you a more humane person. Readings extend widely across literary and non-literary genres, including lyric poetry and the novel, philosophical prose and essays.

Course schedule. LEC # TOPICS
1 Introduction
2 Elaine Scarry
3 Elaine Scarry (cont.)
4 Plato
5 David Hume
6 Immanuel Kant
7 Friedrich Schiller
8 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
10 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
11 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
12 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
13 John Keats
14 John Keats (cont.)
15 John Keats and Walter Benjamin
16 John Keats and Walter Benajmin (cont.)

Theodor Adorno
17 Thomas Love Peacock and P. B. Shelley
18 Mary Shelley
19 Mary Shelley (cont.)
20 Lord Byron and George Gordon
21 Lord Byron and George Gordon (cont.)
22 Charles Dickens
23 Charles Dickens (cont.)

Martha Nussbaum
24 Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater
25 Oscar Wilde
26 Student Presentations