FF:SUS_56 An Introduction to Aesthetics - Course Information
SUS_56 An Introduction to Aesthetics and General Theory of Art
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2020
- 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: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 10:00–11:40 N51
- Prerequisites
- Orientation in the philosophy of arts, aesthetics, and theory of art
- 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 240 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/240, only registered: 0/240, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/240 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Musicology (programme FF, B-VH_) (4)
- Combined Art Studies (programme FF, B-US_) (4)
- Theory of interactive media (programme FF, B-INME_) (4)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to inform students about the basic conceptions of art, issues and categories of aesthetics generated during the history of philosophical-aesthetical reflection of arts. The course also offers the actual solutions of basic issues of philosophy, aesthetics and theory of art after the art broke-up with beauty and the artists resigned to craft skills and stopped to make the sensually attractive artifacts.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be informed about the basic conceptions of art, issues and categories of aesthetics.
- Syllabus
- 1. Philosophical-aesthetical reflection of performing and fine arts since ancient times till the 18th century
- 2. Baumgarten’s conception of aesthetics as a modern science of sensations
- 3. Arts in Kant’s Critique of Taste and formalism in aesthetics
- 4. Hegel’s, Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies of art
- 5. Clive Bell, Susanne K. Langer, and significant art form
- 6. Structuralism and work of art
- 7. Arthur C. Danto and artworld
- 8. Beauty and sublime in arts
- 9. Modern art’s breaking-up with beauty
- 10. Art and new sensibility
- 11. Wolfgang Welsch and aesthetical thought
- Literature
- recommended literature
- DANTO, Arthur C. Zneužitie krásy : estetika a pojem umenia. Translated by Jozef Cseres. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2008, 208 s. ISBN 9788081010255. info
- HANSLICK, Eduard. O hudebním krásnu : příspěvek k revizi hudební estetiky. Translated by Jaroslav Střítecký. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1973, 137 s. info
- HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Estetika. Translated by Jan Patočka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 430 s. info
- HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Estetika. Translated by Jan Patočka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 446 s. info
- KANT, Immanuel. Kritika soudnosti. Edited by Milan Sobotka, Translated by Vladimír Špalek - Walter Hansel. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 271 s. info
- Co je umění? : texty angloamerické estetiky 20. století. Edited by Tomáš Kulka - Denis Ciporanov. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2010, 437 s. ISBN 9788087378465. info
- LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Mýtus a význam. Translated by Pavel Vilikovský. Bratislava: Archa, 1993, 56 s. ISBN 8071150525. info
- MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z estetiky. Edited by Květoslav Chvatík. Vyd. 2. Praha: Odeon, 1971, 482 s. URL info
- SCHNEIDER, Norbert. Dejiny estetiky od osvietenstva po postmodernu. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2002, 341 s. ISBN 80-7149-482-8. info
- SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Svět jako vůle a představa. Translated by Milan Váňa. Pelhřimov: Nová tiskárna, 1997, 432 s. ISBN 8090191649. info
- WELSCH, Wolfgang. Estetické myslenie. Translated by Ladislav Kiczko. Bratislava: Archa, 1993, 168 stran. ISBN 8071150630. info
- NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Zrození tragédie : z ducha hudby. Praha: Karel Stibral, Studentské nakladatelství Gryf, 1993, 81 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, discussion
- Assessment methods
- Final test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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