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MA in Aesthetics : Philosophy : University of Sussex @import url("/includes/css/standard.css"); @import url("/includes/css/standard_department.css"); @import url("/includes/css/data_table_classed.css"); @import url("/includes/css/forms.css"); div.departmentalBar, div.departmentalBar span.left, div.departmentalBar span.right {background-color:#8FC09D;} input.deptSubmit {background-color:#99CAA7;color:#333333;} div.departmentalBar, div.departmentalBar a, div.departmentalBar a:visited {color: #333333;} div.departmentalBar a:hover, div.departmentalBar a:active {color: #000000;} table {width:auto;} table td {padding:3px;} /*img {border:1px solid black;}*/ #contentInner {border-left:0px;margin-left:0px;} /*feature_suspend_option*/  Home | A-Z Index | People | Reference | Contact us Site Staff  Home | News & events | Admissions | Teaching | Research | People | Contacting us Home > Admissions > Postgraduate programmes > MA in Aesthetics MA in Aesthetics The MA in Aesthetics provides an advanced programme of study for those particularly interested in the philosophy of art and literature. It is built around two core courses in aesthetics, alongside which students take two further courses chosen from a range of options.Programme structureFull-time students take the core courses Analytic Aesthetics in the Autumn Term and Continental Aesthetics in the Spring Term, along with an optional course from the list below in each case. During the Summer Term students work under individual supervision towards a dissertation.Part-time students take the MA over two years, taking one course per term in the Autumn and Spring Terms and working towards their dissertation over their two Summer Terms.TeachingAll courses are taught by weekly small-group seminars. In addition we provide a weekly Graduate Reading Seminar in the Spring Term and a weekly Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar in the Summer term, which are compulsory for all MA Aesthetics students. The Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar aims to introduce students to the techniques of research and provides opportunities for MA students to present their own research to their peers and to members of faculty.The University's Philosophy Society meets weekly to hear papers from philosophers at Sussex and elsewhere. It is an ideal means for MA Aesthetics students to broaden their knowledge of philosophy, and there are several other such weekly meetings at the University relevant to those with interests in aesthetics.Autumn Term coursesStudents take the Analytic Aesthetics course and one other course chosen from below.Analytic Aesthetics (core course) (tutor: Kathleen Stock)This course is designed to give the student a thorough grounding in certain central areas of aesthetics, approached from an 'analytic' perspective, and to foster independent critical thinking about issues raised in these areas. Issues covered may include: the objectivity or otherwise of aesthetic judgement; the relation between the aesthetic properties of an object and its 'descriptive' properties; what sort of thing an artwork is; definitions of art, both pre - and post-Wittgenstein; the relation between art and emotional expression; the relation between aesthetic and ethical value; and the value of tragedy. Along the way, we will explore works both by major historical figures, and by important recent thinkers in contemporary analytic aesthetics.Derrida (tutor: Nicholas Royle)This course provides an introduction to the work of Jacques Derrida. This will entail an engagement with a range of fields and discourses, including philosophy, politics, ethics, psychoanalysis and, above all perhaps, literature. Each seminar is concerned with a particular topic or aspect of Derrida's work, followed by group discussion focusing in depth on a specific text by Derrida plus, where appropriate, other texts (literary and non-literary).Fiction and Postmodernity: Endgames in European Literature (tutor: Daniel Steuer)The linguistic turn, the experimental attitude towards language, and the crisis of faith in language, all characteristic of modern literature in the first half of the 20th century, can be seen as aspects of self-reflection, and moments in the movement of Enlightenment where the limits of secularisation and the problem of the authority of the writer take centre stage. This situation is further complicated by the civilisatory rupture caused by war and genocide in Europe, presenting writers in the second half of the century with the task of critically accounting for the past while being faced with a utopian void. Meanwhile, the category of the individual, explored in all its psychological, social and historical complexities by early and high modernism, has now become something akin to an endangered species. This course aims to cross-read literature of the 20th century with philosophical texts that share an interest in coming to terms with the crisis of European (Western) civilisation.Musical Aesthetics from Kant to Nietzsche (tutor: Bjoern Heile)This course aims to provide a rigorous theoretical grounding in the philosophical sources of modern aesthetic theory as well as to develop in students a lively critical attitude. It provides a rare opportunity to explore the central issues in contemporary musical aesthetics and critical theory through a study of key 19th century texts. In particular, it examines the writings of Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, considering these both for their historical significance in shaping musical practice in the 19th century as well as their philosophical applications to contemporary theories of musical meaning.Phenomenology (tutor: Paul Davies)This course will examine works in the phenomenological tradition, which includes such philosophers as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Levinas and Derrida. Usually the readings will be focused around a specific theme. Central questions include: How did phenomenologists after Husserl modify his phenomenological method? How does one best address the question of 'the other' phenomenologically? How do phenomenologists tackle issues of language, art and history?Philosophical Topics (tutors: Murali Ramachandran, Kathleen Stock, and Michael Morris)This course, which also serves as the core course for the Philosophy MA, provides an advanced introduction to a number of central topics in philosophy, such as: realism and idealism; the nature of perception; the possibility of knowledge; the nature of thought; freedom and determinism; the possibility of metaphysics; language and thought; moral truth. Four topics will be covered each year, and each topic will be introduced by a specialist in the field.Spring Term coursesStudents take the Continental Aesthetics course, attend the Philosophy MA Reading Seminar, and take one other course chosen from below.Philosophy MA Reading Seminar (unassessed core course) (tutor: Kathleen Stock)In this seminar students read and discuss either a series of articles or a single longer text. The emphasis is on developing techniques for reading and critically analysing philosophical texts.Continental Aesthetics (core course) (tutor: Tanja Staehler)This course aims to discuss several central themes in Aesthetics, approached from a 'continental' perspective. Questions to be covered may include: What is art, and how can we approach it? What is a work of art, and how is it different from an object or thing? What are the differences between fine art and literature? Does art bring us closer to the truth, or does it move us further away from it? Authors studied may include: Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Blanchot and Derrida. Works by other major historical figures may also be explored, especially in order to elucidate the relationship between art and truth.Deconstruction and Creative Writing (tutor: Nicholas Royle) This course will focus on deconstruction, especially in relation to the work of Jacques Derrida, and on the theory and practice of creative writing. It will start out from an understanding that deconstruction is not a method or technique that is applied to literary texts. Rather, as Derrida has suggested, it is 'a coming-to-terms with literature'. Focusing primarily on short fiction (by writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Franz Kafka, Raymond Carver and Clarice Lispector), the course explores the strange powers of literary works through focus on a range of topics including the gift, madness, secrets and drugs.Language and Truth (tutor: Michael Morris)This course examines the nature of language, the relations between thought and language and between world and language, and the issue of the extent to which it is possible to theorize systematically about language. Topics may include: sense and reference; extensionality and intensionality; verificationism; scepticism about meaning; intention and meaning; truth and meaning; realism and anti-realism.Philosophy Special SubjectThis course will offer students the opportunity to work at an advanced level in tutorial situations on a topic close to a tutor's research interests. The course can be used to further a student's investigation of a topic or figure already studied in an Autumn Term course, or to pursue a new area of interest.Postmodernism and Contemporary Literature (tutor: Richard Murphy)This course will offer an advanced introduction to the central concepts of postmodernism, providing an approach to contemporary US and European literature. Taking into account the wider cultural context of film, art and visual culture, the course will also trace the important links to modernism and its defining issues, mapping out the important relationship between realism, modernism, postmodernism and the avant-garde. This discussion will be broadened through an exploration of the recent theoretical work of Frederic Jameson, Hayden White, Peter Bürger, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Zizek. It will have the aim of exploring the usefulness of the term 'postmodernism' as a means of approaching contemporary literature.Summer termStudents attend the Philosophy MA Work-in-Progress Seminar and work on their dissertation under individual supervision.Philosophy MA Work-in-Progress Seminar(unassessed core course) (tutor: Kathleen Stock)The Work-in-Progress Seminar aims to introduce students to the techniques of research and provides opportunities for MA students to present their own research to their peers and to members of faculty.Alternative optional coursesAs alternatives to the optional courses above, and with the consent of the Programme Convenor, students may take one or more courses from related MA programmes. Examples include: Mind and Reality (Autumn), from MA in Philosophy; Freud (Spring), from MA in English Literature: Critical Theory; Contemporary Film and Critical Theory (Autumn), Postmodernism and Contemporary Film (Spring), both from MA in Film Studies; Contemporary Musical Thought and Culture (Autumn), from MA in Music; and The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory (Spring), from MA in Social and Political Thought.Students may also like to consider The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory from the MA in Social and Political Thought as an alternative to Benjamin and Adorno; and Derrida or Deconstruction and Creative Writing as alternatives to Poststructuralism.Summer termDuring the summer term students work under supervision on a dissertation of up to 15,000 words on a topic they choose and agree with their supervisor. Part-time students are expected to begin background reading for the dissertation in their first summer term.AssessmentThe MA is assessed by a 5000 word term paper for each of the four courses, which is written in the vacation following the end of the course, together with the 15,000 word dissertation, which is submitted towards the end of the summer vacation.Admission requirementsStudents should normally have at least an upper second class honours degree in Philosophy, but related disciplines may also be considered.For some equivalents to the above qualifications, and for English language requirements for postgraduate students, see the 'applications and selection' section of the Postgraduate prospectus.MPhil and DPhil studyThe University offers individual supervision leading to an MPhil or DPhil in Philosophy.Associated facultyFaculty particularly associated with the Aesthetics programme are Paul Davies, Michael Morris, Tanja Staehler and Kathleen Stock.Further informationFor further information on the MA, MPhil or DPhil programmes, please contact the Programme Convenor, Gordon Finlayson, at J.G.Finlayson@sussex.ac.ukUpdated September 2008. Please note that it may not be possible to run an advertised course in a given year if there is insufficient demand from students. For more general information on possible variations of programmes and courses, see the 'Terms and Conditions' page in the 'Applications' section of the Postgraduate Prospectus. see alsoMA in PhilosophyMPhil and DPhil in PhilosophyMA in MusicMA in Critical TheoryHumanities postgraduate programmes Maintained by: Robbie Robb (s.l.robb@sussex.ac.uk) Disclaimer | Feedback |
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