Main objectives of the course can be summarized as follows:
to understand a history of the changes of (aesthetic) attitude towards nature; to understand the complexity of the aesthetic appreciation of nature.
At the end of this course, students should be able to: understand main changes in the history of aesthetic appreciation of nature; to explain differences among appreciation of natural individual objects, places and landscape, also between rural and wild landscape; to explain main aesthetic concepts connected with appreciation of nature as beauty, sublime and picturesque;
to interpret connections between aesthetic appreciation of nature and environmental thinking.
- Regular price: 3850 CZK
- Timetable: jaro 2019
Tue 16:00–17:40 U32
- Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Teacher(s)
Syllabus
1. Introduction. Basic concepts.
2. Aesthetic appreciation of nature in antiquity - individual natural object, place: locus amoenus, origin of the "arcadian landscape". Philosophy and aesthetics of nature.
3. Middle age - Beauty of nature in the work of medieval philosophy and aesthetics.
4. Renaissance - origin of the concept of landscape. First tours and aesthetic liking of nature. Renaissance painting and landscape.
5. 17. century - Landscape painting and the changing aesthetic attitude towards nature: Dutch landscape painting, classical landscape (Claude Lorrain, Poussin), Baroque period in the Central Europe.
6. British aesthetics of the 18th century: Roots of the philosophical reflection of the aesthetic appreciation of nature - Lord of Shaftesbury. Appreciation of the untamed nature. British aesthetics and beauty and sublime of the natural object(E. Burke). Origin of the tourism - the picturesque tours and concept of picturesque (Gilpin, Price).
7. France: J.-J. Rousseau. Origin of appreciation of wilderness.
8. German region: Aesthetics of nature - J. G. Sulzer. I. Kant: Critique of Judgement.
9. Beauties of nature and Romanticism. Aesthetic liking of nature and first protection of nature.
10. "The fall" of aesthetics of nature in philosophy. Nature and art in the 19th century. Czech aesthetics of nature in the 19th century thinking (Klácel, Bratránek, Durdík, Hostinský).
11. 20th century aesthetics: lack of an interest in the 50th and new wave of interest in the last decades in aesthetics and art. Environmental aesthetics (Hepburn, Carlson, Berleant).
12. Aesthetic appreciation of nature and Far East. Texts and art.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The capacity limit for the course is 70 student(s).
