FF:ESDS05 History of Aesthetics - Course Information
ESDS05 History of Aesthetics and Culture
Faculty of ArtsSpring 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
- Aesthetics and Culture Studies (programme FF, D-EST_)
- Aesthetics (programme FF, D-OT4) (2)
- 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 !
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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