ESA005 Lectures on the History of Aesthetics I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 B2.24
Prerequisites
ESA001 Seminar in Aesthetics
There are two pre-requisites: ESA001 Aesthetic proseminar and ESA225 Introduction to Aesthetics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The goal is to introduce Middle-Age Aesthetics as a natural part of the branch namely as a structure of teories which most modern or contemporary thinking about beauty or art spring from.
Learning outcomes
Students will learn and acquire the current approaches, methods and concepts in use and practice.
Syllabus
  • 1. Plotin: beauty and art as symbol, light and abstract simplicity 2. Augustin: art as a message 3. Boëthius: Pythagorian music 4. Johannes Scotus Eriugena: irrational way to beauty 5. Suger: a theory in practice 6. 12. Century Scholastics : unum, verum, bonum 7. Bonaventura: aliud dicitur, aliud demonstratur 8. Thomas Aquinas: proportio, integritas, claritas 9. Mystics 10. Dante 11. Property of beaury as time went by: beauty as case of eternal transcendentality 12. Survey: 1000 years of thinking about and of beauty
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ECO, Umberto. Umění a krása ve středověké estetice. Translated by Zdeněk Frýbort. Vydání druhé. Praha: Argo, 2007, 227 stran. ISBN 9788072038923. info
  • PLÓTÍNOS. Dvě pojednání o kráse. Translated by Petr Rezek. Praha: Rezek, 1994, 139 s. ISBN 80-901796-2-2. info
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1988, 456 s. info
    not specified
  • Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 572 s. ISBN 0195126483. info
  • Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 536 s. ISBN 0195126475. info
  • Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 555 s. ISBN 0195126467. info
  • Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, xvii, 521. ISBN 0195126459. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Written test. The questions consist of lectured themes.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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