The Faculty is most delighted to welcome Professor Jonardon Ganeri as the John Locke lecturer of 2024. Jonardon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and will give a series of lectures in Trinity Term 2024.
The lectures will take place at 5pm on Wednesdays in weeks 1 to 5 of Trinity Term 2024 (24 April and 1, 8, 15, 22, May), at The HB Allen Centre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford.
Lecture 5: Seeing in the Theatre
Sanskrit aesthetics is, in the first instance, a theory of rasa: audience experience in theatre. Against the dominant view that such experience consists in noncognitive affect, I examine that of the philosopher Srī Śaṅkuka (fl. 859 CE), who offers instead
an analysis of audience engagement as the perceptual experience of characters and staged emotions.
Text: Abhinava-bhāratī 1992, 276-82 (= Gnoli 1968). Readings: Lopes 2005, Nanay 2018, Pollock 2016: 77–83, Shulman 2012: 63-5, Nanay 2018, Wollheim 1998.
Lectures:
Lecture 1: Seeing Face-to-Face: Nyāya Realism
Lecture 2: Nyāya Arguments for Nyāya Realism
Lecture 3: Illusion as Mislocated Seeing
Lecture 4: Seeing Absence
Lecture 5: Seeing in the Theatre
A reading list for the lectures is available here
Further information about the John Locke Lectures can be found on the John Locke Lectures page
