SUS_55 Chapters from History of Aesthetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 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: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:00–11:40 N51, except Wed 17. 4.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SUS_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 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 60/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to give a brief survey through the history of modern aesthetics by introduction the most significant contributions to the aesthetical issues from 18th century till today. Through the analyses of the works by main personalities in aesthetics and philosophy, the affinity of the aesthetics to the actual developments in arts will be traced and the history of aesthetics will be confronted with the “actual” art and its branches. The attention will be paid to the historical process in course of which the aesthetics, as a philosophical theory of perception, actually became a philosophy or sociology of arts, bringing the new methodological strategies for the meaningful interpretation of the works of art. Upon completion of this course, the student will achieve an ability to link the particular knowledge of concrete art sciences (mainly of musicology and theory of visual arts) with the actual aesthetical theories and reflections from the early modernism till to the poststructuralist approaches to art.
Learning outcomes
Student will be informed about the most important contributions to the history of modern European and American aesthetics.
Syllabus
  • 1. Baumgarten and forming the aesthetics as a modern science of sensation; 2. Winckelmann’s ideal of beauty and Lessing’s theory of the fruitful moments; 3. Kant’s contribution the genesis of formalism and Herder’s attempt for the semiotics of art; 4. Hegel’s, Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies of art; 5. Significant art form (Clive Bell, Susanne K. Langer); 6. Claude Lévi-Strauss a the structural analysis of work of art; 7. Jan Mukařovský and aesthetical function; 8. Eco’s contribution to the history of aesthetical thought; 9. Arthur C. Danto and artworld; 10. Aesthetics and anaesthetics (Wolfgang Welsch); 11. Anti-essentialism in aesthetics;
Literature
  • 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
  • BARTHES, Roland. Rozkoš z textu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triáda, 2008, 96 s. ISBN 9788086138909. info
  • DANTO, Arthur C. Zneužitie krásy : estetika a pojem umenia. Translated by Jozef Cseres. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2008, 208 s. ISBN 9788081010255. 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
  • SCHNEIDER, Norbert. Dejiny estetiky od osvietenstva po postmodernu. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2002, 341 s. ISBN 80-7149-482-8. info
  • LYOTARD, Jean-François. Návrat a jiné eseje. Edited by Přemysl Maydl, Translated by Miroslav Petříček - Ladislav Šerý. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2002, 231 s. info
  • DELEUZE, Gilles and Felix GUATTARI. Co je filosofie? Translated by Miroslav Petříček. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2001, 191 s. ISBN 80-7298-030-0. info
  • LYOTARD, Jean-François. Putování a jiné eseje. Translated by Miroslav Petříček. V Praze: Herrmann & synové, 2001, 149 s. info
  • WELSCH, Wolfgang. Estetické myslenie. Bratislava: Archa, 1993, 168 s. ISBN 80-7115-063-0. info
  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Mýtus a význam. Translated by Pavel Vilikovský. Bratislava: Archa, 1993, 56 s. ISBN 80-7115-052-5. info
  • LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim. Hamburská dramaturgie : Láokoón ; Stati. Edited by Jiří Stromšík, Translated by Josef Pospíšil - Alena Šimečková. Vyd. v tomto uspořádání. Praha: Odeon, 1980, 544 s. URL info
  • LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim. Hamburská dramaturgie : Láokoón ; Stati. Edited by Jiří Stromšík, Translated by Josef Pospíšil - Alena Šimečková. Vyd. v tomto uspořádání. Praha: Odeon, 1980, 544 s. URL info
  • KANT, Immanuel. Kritika soudnosti. Edited by Milan Sobotka, Translated by Vladimír Špalek - Walter Hansel. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 271 s. info
  • HANSLICK, Eduard. O hudebním krásnu : příspěvek k revizi hudební estetiky. Translated by Jaroslav Střítecký. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1973, 137 s. info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z estetiky. Edited by Květoslav Chvatík. Vyd. 2. Praha: Odeon, 1971, 482 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Lecture, discussion
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 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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