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Artworks like paintings, novels, poetry, dramas, comics, movies, etc. do not merely entertain us, they also enrich our understanding of the world: think of how the tale of the Great Inquisitor in Dostoevskij’s Brothers Karamazov or the brothers Strugackij’s novel Hard to be a God outline complex moral dilemmas; whereas other artworks, like Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman or Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis, offer a window into others’ condition. Under the label “aesthetic cognitivism” we group all philosophical views that seek to clarify in what ways artworks deepen our understanding of the human condition.
In this seminar, we will discuss philosophical texts as well as different kinds of artworks (movies, literary texts, poems, comics, etc.) and explore questions such as: Can artworks be arguments? Does literature enhance our empathic imagination? Is there a distinctively aesthetic form of rationality? What is the relation between games and agency? Does music lead to a deeper self-understanding? How should we think of imaginative
