FF:ESA003 Seminar in Aesthetics - Course Information
ESA003 Seminar in the History of Aesthetics
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Hana Řehulková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Hana Řehulková, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ESA001 Seminar in Aesthetics
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course is designed for students in their second semester. The seminar introduces students to the milestones in aesthetic thought in the history of western culture. The courses focusses on reading and interpreting the basic texts in the area.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to:
- to interpret basic texts of aesthetics
- to formulate the main ideas of the text in relation to aesthetical theory
- to use the basic terms of aesthetics - Syllabus
- 1/ Plato: Hippias Větší; Kelly: Plato 2/ Aristotle: Poetika; Kelly: Aristotle 3/ Plotinus: Dvě pojednání o kráse – O krásném; Kelly: Plotinus 4/ Hume: O měřítku vkusu; Kelly: Hume 5/ Diderot: Filosofické úvahy o původu a povaze krásna; Kelly: Diderot – Survey of Thought 6/ Kant: Kritika soudnosti – Úvod; Kelly: Kant – On Beauty 7/ Hegel: Přednášky o estetice; Kelly: Hegel 8/ Nietzsche: Zrození tragédie z ducha hudby; Kelly: Nietzsche 9/ Adorno: Estetická teorie; Kelly: Adorno
- Literature
- PLÓTÍNOS. Dvě pojednání o kráse. Edited by Petr Rezek. Praha: Rezek, 1994, 139 s. ISBN 8090179622. info
- NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Zrození tragédie : z ducha hudby. Translated by Otokar Fischer. Praha: Gryf, 1993, 81 s. info
- PLATÓN. Dialogy o kráse : Faidrós (Obsaž.) : Hippias Větší (Obsaž.) : Ión (Obsaž.). Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1979, 230 s. info
- KANT, Immanuel. Kritika soudnosti. Edited by Milan Sobotka, Translated by Vladimír Špalek - Walter Hansel. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 271 s. info
- ARISTOTELÉS. Poetika : o básnické tvorbě. Translated by Antonín Kříž. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Jan Laichter, 1948, 123 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Reading and interpretation of the basic texts of aesthetics.
- Assessment methods
- 1/dutiful attendance 2/homework for each lesson 3/oral colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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