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Lecturer(s)
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Roreitnerová Alena, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Aesthetics The lecture follows - through the main representatives as well as the defining concepts - a philosophical tradition that reflects on the meaning of art and beauty for human existence. The interpretation of the ancient concepts is complemented by examples of their further development in contemporary thought. (1) Aesthetics, Beauty and Philosophy of Art Why is it difficult to say what beauty is? (Plato: Hippias the Greater, R. Scruton) (2) Recollection of beauty and beauty as an object of desire (Plato: Phaedrus, Symposion) (3) Art and imitation - mimesis (Plato: Republic, Aristotle: Poetics, P. Ricoeur: Time and Narrative) (4) Unity, multiplicity and the mathematical order of the world: Plotinus and Augustine The medieval idea of beauty and its sources (U. Eco) (5) Renaissance Christian Platonism (M. Ficino) Beauty as encounter with the particular (R. Scruton) (6) Aesthetics in the 18th century and the beauty of nature What is aesthetic judgment? Disinterested pleasure and interest (I. Kant) (7) The beautiful and the sublime (I. Kant, possibly J.-F. Lyotard) (8) What is taste? (D. Hume) Art and kitsch, beauty and profanation (9) Romanticism and the metaphysics of art: F. Schiller, J. W. Goethe (W. Benjamin) (10) Art and signs: Czech structuralism and French neostructuralism Aesthetic function, norm and value (J. Mukařovský, R. Barthes, G. Deleuze) (11) Unintentionality in art (Mukařovský, Jankovič) Phenomenological Aesthetics (R. Ingarden, M. Merleau-Ponty) (12) Postmodernism and its critique (W. Welsch, J.-F. Lyotard, R. Scruton)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Contact teaching
- 26 hours per semester
- Excursion
- 8 hours per semester
- Preparation of a presentation (report)
- 16 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 40 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 60 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 30 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Aesthetics The lecture follows - through the main representatives as well as the defining concepts - a philosophical tradition that reflects on the meaning of art and beauty for human existence. The interpretation of the ancient concepts is complemented by examples of their further development in contemporary thought. (1) Aesthetics, Beauty and Philosophy of Art Why is it difficult to say what beauty is? (Plato: Hippias the Greater, R. Scruton) (2) Recollection of beauty and beauty as an object of desire (Plato: Phaedrus, Symposion) (3) Art and imitation - mimesis (Plato: Republic, Aristotle: Poetics, P. Ricoeur: Time and Narrative) (4) Unity, multiplicity and the mathematical order of the world: Plotinus and Augustine The medieval idea of beauty and its sources (U. Eco) (5) Renaissance Christian Platonism (M. Ficino) Beauty as encounter with the particular (R. Scruton) (6) Aesthetics in the 18th century and the beauty of nature What is aesthetic judgment? Disinterested pleasure and interest (I. Kant) (7) The beautiful and the sublime (I. Kant, possibly J.-F. Lyotard) (8) What is taste? (D. Hume) Art and kitsch, beauty and profanation (9) Romanticism and the metaphysics of art: F. Schiller, J. W. Goethe (W. Benjamin) (10) Art and signs: Czech structuralism and French neostructuralism Aesthetic function, norm and value (J. Mukařovský, R. Barthes, G. Deleuze) (11) Unintentionality in art (Mukařovský, Jankovič) Phenomenological Aesthetics (R. Ingarden, M. Merleau-Ponty) (12) Postmodernism and its critique (W. Welsch, J.-F. Lyotard, R. Scruton)
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Requirements: The course ends with an oral examination.
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Recommended literature
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