Annotation
These courses on philosophy of art do not intend a philosophy that speaks about art in general. Rather they try to make explicit the philosophical relevance of artifacts by philosophical means.
Thus the main thesis says that artifacts as complex, ‘imaginary’ things – i.e. things beyond of serving practical purposes – do imply meshes of philosophical structures, and the task of philosophical analysis is to unveil them. The course of the winter semester 2014 deals with various forms of perspective representation by explaining their development in different cultures and epochs, and relates them to the living human body which both creates and experiences them.
