ESA006 Lectures on the History of Aesthetics II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Lee, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 C32, except Thu 18. 4.
Prerequisites
There are two prerequisites: ESA001 Aesthetic proseminar and ESA225 Introduction to 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 goal is to introduce early modern and modern aesthetics as a natural part of the branch namely as a structure of teories which most of modern or contemporary thinking about beauty or art spring of.
Learning outcomes
The goal is to introduce early modern and modern aesthetics as a natural part of the branch namely as a structure of teories which most of modern or contemporary thinking about beauty or art spring of.
Syllabus
  • 1. Renaissance as a case of an emantipation 2. Mannerism as modernism 3. Classicism and Aristotle 4. Descartes and intentio lectoris 5. Enlightenment, school of taste, Hume, Schafterbury 5. Baumgarten and Kant: rules, attitude, romantism 6. Hegel: the absoluteness in art 7. Schopenhauer: aesthetic redemption 8. Nietzsche: Will zur Macht 9. Sociology in aesthetics in 19. Century: Comte, Taine, Guyau 10. Psychology in aesthetics in 19. Century: Fechner and experiment 11. The birth of modern art 12. Survey: 500 years of thinking about beauty and art
Literature
    recommended literature
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1991, 422 s. info
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  • Dějiny krásy. Edited by Umberto Eco, Translated by Gabriela Chalupská - Veronika Křenková -. Praha: Argo, 2015, 439 stran. ISBN 9788025714331. info
  • SCHNEIDER, Norbert. Dejiny estetiky od osvietenstva po postmodernu. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2002, 341 s. ISBN 80-7149-482-8. info
  • 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
  • HENCKMANN, Wolfhart and Konrad LOTTER. Estetický slovník. Translated by Dušan Prokop. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1995, 229 s. ISBN 8020504788. info
  • UTITZ, Emil. Dějiny estetiky. Edited by Karel Svoboda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství československých výtvarných umělců, 1968, 119 s. URL info
  • UTITZ, Emil. Dějiny estetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství československých výtvarných umělců, 1968, 119 s. URL info
  • BEARDSLEY, Monroe C. Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present : a short history. New York: Macmillan Company, 1966. info
Teaching methods
Discussion over the read texts
Assessment methods
Writing critiques and summaries of texts read
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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