USK_23a History of Aesthetics I.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 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. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 23. 2. 15:50–17:25 N51, Fri 23. 3. 15:50–17:25 N51, Fri 27. 4. 15:50–17:25 N51, Fri 18. 5. 15:50–17:25 N51
Prerequisites
Orientation in the history of modern aesthetics.
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.
Learning outcomes
Student will be informed about the most important contributions to the history of modern European and American aesthetics.
Syllabus
  • 1. Baumgarten and forming the aesthetics as a modern science of sensation; 2. Winckelmann’s 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. Arthur C. Danto and artworld; 10. Aesthetics and anaesthetics (Wolfgang Welsch); 11. Anti-essentialism in Aesthetics;
Literature
    required literature
  • • DANTO, Arthur C.: Zneužitie krásy. Bratislava, Kalligram, 2008.
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z estetiky. Praha, Odeon, 1966, s. 17–61, 65–88.
  • LANGEROVÁ, Susanne: O významovosti v hudbe. Genéza umeleckého zmyslu. SNEH, Bratislava 1998.
  • KANT, Immanuel. Kritika soudnosti. Praha, Odeon, 1975.
  • LANGEROVÁ, Susanne: Kulturní význam umění. In: Iluminace 1/1996,s. 82-87.
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z poetiky. Praha, Odeon, 1982, s. 93–136.
  • • WELSCH, Wolfgang: Estetické myslenie. Bratislava, Kalligram, 2002.
    recommended literature
  • HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich: Estetika I. Praha, Odeon, 1966.
  • • SCHNEIDER, Norbert: Dejiny estetiky od osvietenstva po postmodernu. Bratislava, Kalligram, 2002.
  • WINCKELMANN, Johann Joachim: Dějiny umění starověku. Stati. Praha, Odeon, 1986.
  • LESSING, Gotthold Ephreim: Hamburská dramaturgie. Láokoón. Praha, Odeon, 1980.
  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude: Mýtus a význam. Archa, Bratislava 1993, s. 47-56.
  • • BELL, Clive: Art. New York, Capricorn Books, 1958.
  • NIETZSCHE, Friedrich: Soumrak model/Duševní aristokratismus/O umění. Praha, Československý spisovatel, 2009.
  • • KULKA, Tomáš – CIPORANOV, Denis (eds.): Co je umění? Praha, Pavel Mervart, 2010.
  • HANSLICK, Eduard: O hudebním krásnu. Praha, Supraphon, 1973.
  • HERDER, Johann Gottfried: Kalligona, Bratislava, Tatran, 1987.
  • SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur: Svět jako vůle a představa I., II. Pelhřimov, Nová tiskárna Pelhřimov 1997.
Teaching methods
lecture, discussion
Assessment methods
final test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: jednou za tři roky.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin konzultací.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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