FF:SUSK_04 Introduction to Aesthetics - Course Information
SUSK_04 Introduction to Aesthetics and the General Theory of Art
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Jozef Cseres, PhD. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Jozef Cseres, PhD.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Fri 9. 10. 15:00–16:40 N51, Fri 23. 10. 15:00–16:40 N51, Fri 20. 11. 15:00–16:40 N51, Fri 4. 12. 15:00–16:40 N51
- Prerequisites
- Orientation in the philosophy of arts, aesthetics, and theory of art
- 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
- Musicology (programme FF, B-VH_) (2)
- Combined Art Studies (programme FF, B-US_) (2)
- Theory and performing Practice of Ancient Music (programme FF, B-SH_)
- Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, B-INME_) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to inform students about the basic conceptions of art, issues and categories of aesthetics generated during the history of philosophical-aesthetical reflection of arts. The course also offers the actual solutions of basic issues of philosophy, aesthetics and theory of art after the art broke-up with beauty and the artists resigned to craft skills and stopped to make the sensually attractive artifacts.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be informed about the basic conceptions of art, issues and categories of aesthetics.
- Syllabus
- 1. Philosophical-aesthetical reflection of performing and fine arts since ancient times till the 18th century
- 2. Baumgarten’s conception of aesthetics as a modern science of sensations
- 3. Arts in Kant’s Critique of Taste and formalism in aesthetics
- 4. Hegel’s, Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies of art
- 5. Clive Bell, Susanne K. Langer, and significant art form
- 6. Structuralism and work of art
- 7. Arthur C. Danto and artworld
- 8. Beauty and sublime in arts
- 9. Modern art’s breaking-up with beauty
- 10. Art and new sensibility
- 11. Wolfgang Welsch and aesthetical thought
- Literature
- recommended literature
- DANTO, Arthur C. Zneužitie krásy : estetika a pojem umenia. Translated by Jozef Cseres. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2008, 208 s. ISBN 9788081010255. info
- HANSLICK, Eduard. O hudebním krásnu : příspěvek k revizi hudební estetiky. Translated by Jaroslav Střítecký. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1973, 137 s. info
- HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Estetika. Translated by Jan Patočka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 430 s. info
- HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Estetika. Translated by Jan Patočka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 446 s. info
- KANT, Immanuel. Kritika soudnosti. Edited by Milan Sobotka, Translated by Vladimír Špalek - Walter Hansel. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 271 s. info
- Co je umění? : texty angloamerické estetiky 20. století. Edited by Tomáš Kulka - Denis Ciporanov. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2010, 437 s. ISBN 9788087378465. info
- LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Mýtus a význam. Translated by Pavel Vilikovský. Bratislava: Archa, 1993, 56 s. ISBN 8071150525. info
- MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z estetiky. Edited by Květoslav Chvatík. Vyd. 2. Praha: Odeon, 1971, 482 s. URL info
- SCHNEIDER, Norbert. Dejiny estetiky od osvietenstva po postmodernu. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2002, 341 s. ISBN 80-7149-482-8. info
- SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Svět jako vůle a představa. Translated by Milan Váňa. Pelhřimov: Nová tiskárna, 1997, 432 s. ISBN 8090191649. info
- WELSCH, Wolfgang. Estetické myslenie. Translated by Ladislav Kiczko. Bratislava: Archa, 1993, 168 stran. ISBN 8071150630. info
- NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Zrození tragédie : z ducha hudby. Praha: Karel Stibral, Studentské nakladatelství Gryf, 1993, 81 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, discussion
- Assessment methods
- Final test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin výuka, 8 hodin konzultace.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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