ESDS05 History of Aesthetics and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
The course presupposes the ability to creatively self-reflect on a project, gradually enrich it and elaborate from a new perspective. It builds on previous results, language skills, and expert knowledge and develops academic communication in terms of methods and aims.
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
Course objectives
A doctoral student acquires a kind of knowledge in the realm of the subject;
- ponderates upon its utility for his dissertation project;
- learns to find and solve the problems about facts and methods;
- suggests alternatives solutions and thinks about the employment of AI for its support;
-exercises in the usage of the foreign language in study and academic communication;
develops forms on international collaboration in the field
Learning outcomes
- to analyze and to define the diverse cultural phenomena;
- to describe utilizing multi-factorial analysis the process of artistic creation and reception in the given period;
- to take into consideration both diachronic and synchronic approaches;
- to design a case for the AI usage;
- to review a recent publication or article;
- to describe a problem emerging with intercultural transfer, translation loss, changing functions and conventions;
- to develop the dissertation project
Syllabus
  • Concept of the Beauty in the Greek Thought
  • Problem of Periodization
  • Groundworks in the History of Aesthetics
  • Aesthec Discourse as a Part of Philosophy, Theology, and of History of Arts
  • Definitions of Culture and the Question of Cultural Authonomy
  • Receptive Model of Culture
  • Culture in the Frankfurt School and Marxism
  • Scructuralist model of culture
  • Modern Culture according to Roger Scruton
Literature
  • SCRUTON, Roger. Průvodce inteligentního člověka filosofií. 1. vyd. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2003, 137 s. ISBN 80-85947-91-9. info
  • SCRUTON, Roger. Průvodce inteligentního člověka po moderní kultuře. Translated by Klára Cabalková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2002, 210 s. ISBN 80-200-1013-0. info
  • ADORNO, Theodor W. Estetická teorie. 1. vyd. Praha: Panglos, 1997, 581 s. ISBN 8090220541. info
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1988, 456 s. info
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1985, 521 s. info
  • MORPURGO-TAGLIABUE, Guido. Současná estetika. Edited by Miloš Jůzl, Translated by Zdena Plošková. 1. vyd. Praha: Odeon, 1985, 552 s. URL info
  • GILBERTOVÁ, Katharine Everett and Helmut KUHN. Dějiny estetiky [Gilbertová, 1965]. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1965, 502 s. info
Teaching methods
Individual consults with supervisor in doctoral study. All materials for the consults must be delivered in advance. Presentation of study results in the study circle or doctoral conference. Preparatory work on publication output.
Assessment methods
Colloquium with the supervisor in the presence of (2) other members of the scientific board. Presentation and discussion.
Náhradní absolvování
None.
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/do/phil/Pracoviste/seminar_estetiky/studijni_materialy/
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Jen pro doktorandské studium !
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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