John Locke Lectures (Wednesday - Week 5, TT24)

Jonardon Ganeri

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