US_55 Chapters from History of Aesthetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Kristýna Celhofferová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kristýna Celhofferová, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Wed 8:20–9:55 N21
Prerequisites (in Czech)
US_56 An 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.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the lecture is to give a brief survey of history of aesthetics and additional selected probes.Upon completion of this course, the student will have a general knowledge of period style and lines of thought about them (Russian and Central European Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, existencialist Aesthetics), will have an understanding of the style contexts of Music, Literature, Theatre and Arts in Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, Modern, Postmodern. he will be able to define the basic term (Mimesis, Ethos, Pathos, Affect, Catharsis...)
Syllabus
  • 1. Antique - Plato, Aristotle, theory of mimesis, antique opinions on art, definitions of beauty: Augustin, Plato
  • 2. Middle ages - theories of beauty and art, St. Thomas Aquinas
  • 3. Renaissance - B.Castigione
  • 4. Theory of affects - R. Descartes
  • 5. Classicism, Empfindsamkeit, Sturm und Drang, Lessing, Wincklemann, Kant, Mendelssohn
  • 6. Romantic theories of art, Gesamtkunstwerk
  • 7. Psychoanalysis and art (Freud, Jung)
  • 8. Existencialim, phenomenology, Frankfurter Schule
  • 9. Formalism in the Central Europe and Russia
  • 10.Structuralism
  • 11. Poststructuralism
Literature
  • VOLEK, Jaroslav. Kapitoly z dějin estetiky : od antiky k počátku XX. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Panton, 1969, 268 s. URL info
  • NOVÁK, Mirko. Česká estetika : od Palackého po dobu současnou. V Praze: Fr. Borový, 1941, 156 stran. URL info
  • Vědecký odkaz Otakara Zicha : sborník ze sympozia v Praze (16.-18. května 1979). Edited by Rudolf Pečman. První vydání. Brno: Česká hudební společnost, 1981, 285 stran. URL info
  • Pocta Otakaru Hostinskému : vědecké sympozium : Brno, 10.-11. března 1980. Edited by Rudolf Pečman. 1. vyd. Brno: Česká hudební společnost, 1982, 201 s. info
  • PAVELKA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno: Georgetown, 1993, 290 s. ISBN 8090160409. info
  • GILBERT, Katharine Everett and Helmut KUHN. Dějiny estetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1965, 502 s. info
  • MORPURGO-TAGLIABUE, Guido. Současná estetika. Edited by Miloš Jůzl, Translated by Zdena Plošková. 1. vyd. Praha: Odeon, 1985, 552 s. URL info
  • Zuska, Vlastimil (ed). Umění, krása, šeredno. Texty z estetiky 20. století. Univerzita Karlova v Praze. Nakladatelství Karolinu. Praha 2003
  • VOLEK, Jaroslav. Základy obecné teorie umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1968, 259 s. URL info
  • Dějiny ošklivosti. Edited by Umberto Eco, Translated by Iva Adámková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2007, 455 s. ISBN 9788072038930. info
  • Dějiny krásy. Edited by Umberto Eco, Translated by Gabriela Chalupská. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2005, 439 s. ISBN 8072036777. info
Teaching methods
One 1.5 hour class per week, lectures, readings
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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