Course: Philosophy and Aesthetics

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Course title Philosophy and Aesthetics
Course code KFI/FED
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Doubravová Jarmila, Prof. PhDr. CSc.
  • Ševčík Miloš, Doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Traditional aesthetical categories and terms of contemporary aesthetics: beauty, majesty, comicality, mimésis, catharsis, taste. 2. Conceptions of beauty in modern time and in 20th century, typology of the conceptions. 3. Majesty: ancient conception, modern time. 4. Majesty: 20th century 5. Comicality: ancient conception, modern time. 6. Comicality: 20th century, macrotheory of comicality. 7. Mimésis: ancient conception, middle age 8. Mimésis: modern time, 20th century 9. Catharsis: ancient and modern conceptions 10. Taste: emergence of aesthetical categories, modern time, 20th century. 11. Aesthetical attitude: emergence and development of the conception in 20th century 12. Aesthetical object: emergence and development of the conception in 20th century

Learning activities and teaching methods
Textual studies, Lecture
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 104 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to introduce crutial characters and themes of European philosophy
to describe the basic historical and cultural realities of European history
Skills
to use and understand the terminology of European aesthetics
to identify the problem (thesis) and reproduce the arguments contained in the text
to use modern technologies, especially information databases
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to introduce crutial characters and themes of European aesthetics
to characterize the most important concepts of European aesthetics and explain their context
to summarize selected important writings of European aesthetics
Skills
to analyze the source texts of European aesthetics
to interpret selected passages of texts of European aesthetics
to follow the argumentation procedures of specific authors or selected texts of European aesthetics
to argue and discuss a specific subject of European aesthetics
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
One-to-One tutorial
Self-study of literature
Textual studies
Skills
Self-study of literature
One-to-One tutorial
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Skills
Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • Aristotelés. Poetika. 1. vyd. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7298-131-1.
  • Augustin. O pořádku. ; O učiteli. Praha : Česká akademie věd a umění, 1942.
  • Bergson, Henri. Smích. 1. vyd. Praha : Naše vojsko, 1993. ISBN 80-206-0404-9.
  • Henckmann, Wolfhart; Lotter, Konrad. Estetický slovník. Praha : Svoboda, 1995. ISBN 80-205-0478-8.
  • Lessing, G. E. Láokoón neboli o hranicích malířství a poezie. In: L., G. E., Hamburská dramaturgie, Láokoón, stati. Praha : Odeon, 1980.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Zrození tragédie : z ducha hudby. dot. [1. vyd.]. Praha : Gryf, 1993.
  • Platón. Symposion. 3., opr. vyd. Praha : Institut pro středoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 1993. ISBN 80-85241-31-5.
  • Souriau, Étienne; Lorenzová, Helena. Encyklopedie estetiky. [1. vyd.]. Praha : Victoria Publishing, 1994. ISBN 80-85605-18-X.
  • Zuska, Vlastimil. Estetika : úvod do současnosti tradiční disciplíny. Praha : Triton, 2001. ISBN 80-7254-194-3.


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