FF:ESA005 History of Aesthetics - Course Information
ESA005 Lectures on the History of Aesthetics
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 8:00–9:40 B2.21
- Prerequisites
- There is a pre-requisite: ESA225 Introduction to 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
- Aesthetics (programme FF, B-EST_) (3)
- Aesthetics (programme FF, B-HS)
- Aesthetics (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Course objectives
- The goal is to introduce Middle-Age Aesthetics as a natural part of the branch namely as a structure of teories which most modern or contemporary thinking about beauty or art spring from.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will learn and acquire the current approaches, methods and concepts in use and practice.
- Syllabus
- 1. Plotin: beauty and art as symbol, light and abstract simplicity 2. Augustin: art as a message 3. Boëthius: Pythagorian music 4. Johannes Scotus Eriugena: irrational way to beauty 5. Suger: a theory in practice 6. 12. Century Scholastics : unum, verum, bonum 7. Bonaventura: aliud dicitur, aliud demonstratur 8. Thomas Aquinas: proportio, integritas, claritas 9. Mystics 10. Dante 11. Property of beaury as time went by: beauty as case of eternal transcendentality 12. Survey: 1000 years of thinking about and of beauty
- Literature
- recommended literature
- ECO, Umberto. Umění a krása ve středověké estetice. Translated by Zdeněk Frýbort. Vydání druhé. Praha: Argo, 2007, 227 stran. ISBN 9788072038923. info
- PLÓTÍNOS. Dvě pojednání o kráse. Translated by Petr Rezek. Praha: Rezek, 1994, 139 s. ISBN 80-901796-2-2. info
- TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1988, 456 s. info
- not specified
- Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 572 s. ISBN 0195126483. info
- Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 536 s. ISBN 0195126475. info
- Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 555 s. ISBN 0195126467. info
- Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, xvii, 521. ISBN 0195126459. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Written test. The questions consist of lectured themes.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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