Course: Philosophy of Imagination: Sharing Visions

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Course title Philosophy of Imagination: Sharing Visions
Course code KFHS/N717
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Fišerová Michaela, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction 2. Ontology of Image, Simmulacrum and Fantasia in Ancient Philosophy 3. Faith, gaze, and iconoclasm in Middle Ages 4. Scientific imagination and representation of the world in early Modern Era 5. Baroque visuality: perspective and fold 6. Scheme, schematism and imagination in Kant 7. Temporality and imagination in phenomenology 8. Description and illustration in visual semiotics 9. Portrait and genre in reception aesthetics 10. Memory and movement of images in vitalism 11. Politics and imagination in Marxism 12. Uncounscious and imagination in psychoanalysis 13. Testimony and document in anthropology of image 14. Closing discussion

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The subject's goal is to introduce the aims and methods of applied reaserach in the area of systematic philosophy specialized in image and imagination. The course is composed of a series of lectures in applied ethics and aesthetics. Each lecture introduces the main philosophic problems, intellectual movements and conceptions of chosen philosophers in the context of historical background.
The student will get orientation in the Western philosophical understanding of concepts of the image, imagination, picture, gaze, visuality. Via reading of a representative selection of texts from the fields of ethics and aesthetics, the student will see mutual codependence in contrast definiotions of these concepts. Based on comparison of individual texts, the student will uncover various philosophical intentions and presuppositions that condition the social determination of imagination. The student will understand historical evolution of the Western philosophical tradition of thinking of imagination in various ethical and aesthetic contexts.
Prerequisites
reading in Czech and English

Assessment methods and criteria
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The course is composed of a series of lectures. Each lecture introduces the main philosophic problems, intellectual movements and conceptions of chosen philosophers in the context of historical background. The lecture is followed by discussion of the given topis with students. The final oral examination is based on study of suggested bibliography.
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