Readings

Art - Theories
     Aristotle - Poetics
     Bell - The Aesthetic Hypothesis
     Collingwood - The Principles of Art
     Dewey - Art as Experience
     Hegel - Introduction to Aesthetics
     Heidegger - The Origin of Work of Art
     Hume - Of the Standard of Taste
     Kant - Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
     Plato - Allegory of the Cave
     Plato - Republic - Book X
     Plotinus - Enneads Vol 1.6
     Schiller - On the Aesthetic Education of Man
     Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation 
     Tolstoy - On Art

Creativity - Theories

     Mike's Theory of Creativity
     Berquist - A Comparative View of Creativity Theories
     Cocteau - The Process of Inspiration
     Einstein - Letter to Jacques Hadamard
     Ernst - Inspiration to Order
     Gerard - The Biological Basis of Imagination
     Houseman - The Name and Nature of Poetry
     Jung - Psychology and Literature
     Lowell - The Process of Making Poetry
     Miller - Reflections on Writing
     Moore - In Defense of Sloppy Thinking and What Ifs
     Prince - Subconscious Intelligence Underlying Dreams
     Smolin - Why No New Einstein
     Spender - The Making of a Poem
     Valery - May | On Limits, Boundaries, Frame, and Form
     Wolf - The Story of a Novel


Communication Theories
     Week 01 - Transmission Theory
     Week 02 - Dewey and Camus
     Week 03 - Hyde, Dewey, and Heidegger
     Week 04 - Hegel, Husserl, and Kant
     Week 05 - Cybernetics - Information v. Meaning
     Week 06 - Langsdorf - The Malleable Mind
     Week 07 - Wittgenstein/Arendt - Language and the Public Sphere
     Week 10 - Tuan, Aristotle, Radford and Trimmer - Language as Structure and Meaning

Essays and Summaries
     Levinas - Ethics of First Philosophy - How We Create Meaning
     Malibou - Eye at the Edge of Discourse
     Schutz - Foundations of a Theory Intersubjectivity Understanding

Literary Theory
     Aquinas | Summa Theologica | Medieval
     Alighieri, Dane | II Convivio Book 2 | Medieval
     Aristotle - Poetics | Classical
     Augustine | On Christian Teaching | Medieval
     Boccaccio | Genealogy of the Gentle Gods | Early Modern
     Burk | Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
     Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Romantic Period
     Dryden | Essay on Dramatic Poesy | Early Modern

     Hegel | Phenomenology of Spirit
     Plato - Allegory of the Cave | Classical
     Plato - Republic - Book X | Classical
     Sydney | Defence of Poesy | Early Modern
     Wollstonecroft | A Vindication of the Rights to Women | Romantic Period
     Wordsworth | Preface to Lyrical Ballads | Romantic Period