US_55cv Chapters from History of Aesthetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jozef Cseres, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Wed 9:10–10:45 zruseno D22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
US_56 An Introduction to Aesthetics &&NOW( US_55 Chapters from History of Aest. )
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 100 student(s).
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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. Existencialism, 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
consultiton
Assessment methods
essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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