USK_23a History of Aesthetics I.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jozef Cseres, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alena Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 20. 2. 15:50–17:25 zruseno D22, Fri 20. 3. 15:50–17:25 zruseno D22, Fri 24. 4. 15:50–17:25 zruseno D22, Fri 15. 5. 15:50–17:25 zruseno D22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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.
Syllabus
  • 1. Baumgarten and forming the aesthetics as a modern science of sensation 2. Winckelmann’ 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. Aesthetical issues in the conceptions of poststructuralist thinkers (Roland Barthes, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari) 10. Arthur C. Danto and artworld 11. Aesthetics and anaesthetics (Wolfgang Welsch) 11. Anti-essentialism in aesthetics
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in three years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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