Course: Logos, Myths, Mimesis in the Classical Tradition

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Course title Logos, Myths, Mimesis in the Classical Tradition
Course code KFI/LMM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Boháček Kryštof, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Logos in present time. Central role, decentralised meanings. 2. Logos, Mythos, Mimésis. "A Key Study". 3. Mythos. 4. Epos. Orality. 5. Lyrics. Political logos. 6. Historiá, techné. philosophy. Apolitical logos. 7. Tragical logos. Beginning and origin of tragedy. 8. Dramatical logos. Attic tragedy - structural view. 9. Tragical situation, tragical hero. Triple perpective. 10. Tragical thinking. Nietzsche and (again)birth of tragedy. 11. Perspectivism. 12. Discussion about the reports. 13. Discussion about the reports. Attempt at logos?

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Textual studies, Seminar
  • Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15) - 10 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 16 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Course requires no special prior knowledge and skills.
learning outcomes
Students will be able to summarize and explain basic problems of establishing and institucionalization of truth, value and authority through language. In practical exercises will they ,through reading of texts especially from Greek philosophers from fifth till third century B. C., interpret most important questions connected with this themes. Through reading of parts from Aristoteleses work "Poetic" will they compare his basic ideas. Students will get brief summary of whole preclassical and classical poietical tradition, since myth till the sophists and Plato. Than will they explore Attic tragedy as a sphere in which are connecting all later ways of understanding to the world.
teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
Textual studies
assessment methods
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • Baudrillard, Jean; Dvořáčková, Alena. O svádění. Olomouc : Votobia, 1996. ISBN 80-71-98-078-1.
  • Detienne, Marcel. Mistři pravdy v archaickém Řecku. Vyd. 1. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2000. ISBN 80-7298-003-3.
  • Hawhee, Debra. Bodily arts : rhetoric and athletics in ancient Greece. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004. ISBN 0-292-70584-0.
  • Koller H. Die Mimesis in der Antike. Bern, 1954. ISBN není - habilitace.
  • McComiskey, Bruce. Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8093-2397-4.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Zrození tragédie : z ducha hudby. dot. [1. vyd.]. Praha : Gryf, 1993.
  • Nussbaumová, Martha C. Křehkost dobra : náhoda a etika v řecké tragédii a filosofii. Vyd. 1. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2003. ISBN 80-7298-089-0.
  • Rezek P. (ed.). Mýtus, epos, logos. Praha, 1991. ISBN 80-85-241-07-2.
  • Rezek, Petr. Logos apofantikos. Praha : Rezek, 2000. ISBN 80-86027-17-1.
  • Schaeffer, John D. Sensus communis : Vico, rhetoric, and the limits of relativism. Durham : Duke University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8223-1026-0.
  • Steiger E. Základní pojmy poetiky. Praha, 1969.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Humanities (19-5) Category: Philosophy, theology 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Humanities (19-4) Category: Philosophy, theology 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter