ESA775 Imagination, Metaphysics, and the Human Mind

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Timetable
Thu 16:40–18:15 C31
Prerequisites
Interest in poetry, esp. so-called metaphysical poetry, and in contemporary questions of cognition and imaginative process, and of human mind.
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
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Course objectives
The course introduces into the works of the metaphysical poets, learns better to understand it and to appreciate it, especially in the light of the contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind.
Syllabus
  • What is the metaphysical poetry ? First definitions and descriptions.
  • How does/can poetry transcend our empirical knowledge, using its matter, images, relations in order to find/construct "cognitive pattern".
  • Classic definitions of the metaphysical poetry - Johnson, Eliot, and others.
  • Some impulses from the cognitive sciences (Damasio, Sacks, Hofstadter, Nussbaum, Searle, and others)
  • Examples of the metaphysical poetry: Shakespeare, Southwell, Hopkins, Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien
Literature
  • Shakespearovy Sonety
  • T. S. Eliot: The Metaphysical Poets
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. The sonnets of William Shakespeare & Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton : together with A lover's complaint and The phoenix & turtle. Edited by Walter Thomson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1938, 199 p. ; 2. info
Teaching methods
Close reading, class discussion.
Assessment methods
Colloquium, that is a kind of learned conversation on subject-matter.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Kurs určen především pokročilejším studentům počínaje 3. rokem studia. bsolvování některého tématického kursu přednášejícího: Augustin, Dante, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard
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