FF:ESAA62 Beauty in Japanese Thought - Course Information
ESAA62 Beauty in Japanese Thought
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Joseph Rostinsky (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 14:00–15:40 G24, except Wed 17. 4.
- Prerequisites
- Course in English language given by a distingushed professor of Tokkai University Tokio. No knowledge of the Japanese language is required.
- 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 70 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 52/70, only registered: 0/70, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/70 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 18 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce its students into the Japanese culture, art and aesthetic thought.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will receive the conceptual and the historical contexts of the Japanese thought about beauty, art, landscape and tradition.
- Syllabus
- The ideas, as expressed in Japanese literature, visual arts and in samurai ethics (bushido), will be explained and interpreted through selected texts. Examples are drawn from the works of N.Soseki, J.Tanizaki, Y.Mishima, and M.Miyamoto. No knowledge of the Japanese language is required. Bibliography: Leonard Koren: Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers. (Point Reyes, CA, 2008). Yukio Mishima: Hagakure, Samurai Ethics. (Tokyo: Charles E. Tutte, 1992). Junichiro Tanizaki: In Praise of Shadows. (London: Vintage Books, 2001).
- Literature
- Leonard Koren: Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers. (Point Reyes, CA, 2008). Yukio Mishima: Hagakure, Samurai Ethics. (Tokyo: Charles E. Tutte, 1992). Junichiro Tanizaki: In Praise of Shadows. (London: Vintage Books, 2001).
- Teaching methods
- Oral lectures with examples.
- Assessment methods
- A colloquium.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
General note: A course is in English.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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