Course: Aesthetics II

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Course title Aesthetics II
Course code KDT/FU030
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
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)
  • Kolář Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introductory meeting - (Iser, 2009 and Ciporanov, Kulka, 2010). 2. Phenomenological aesthetics. 3. Hermeneutic tradition. 4. Reception aesthetics. 5. Marxist aesthetics. 6. Semiotic theories. 7. Structuralism. 8. Poststructuralist theories. 9. Postcolonial discourse and feminist poetics; Analytic aesthetics. 10. Processual aesthetics; Aesthetics of experience. 11. Pragmatism, Neopragmatism.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with basic aesthetic theories in the 20th and 21st centuries. Emphasis is placed on both connections and contrasts between the Continental and Anglo-American traditions (changing paradigms) and their reflection in definition of the subject of aesthetics, aesthetic objects, and the theory of representations. The course involves reading a selected source text.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Attendance
Recommended literature
  • CIPORANOV, Denis a Tomáš KULKA. Co je umění? : Texty americké estetiky 20. století. Červený Kostelec, Pavel Mervart, 2012.
  • Fišerová, Michaela. Obraz a moc: rozhovory s francouzskými mysliteli. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015.
  • Hadravová, Tereza. Co je nového v estetice. Praha: Nová beseda, 2016.
  • Kulka, T. Umění a kýč. Praha: Torst, 2000.
  • LEVINSON, J. The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. OUP, Oxford, 2005. ISBN 0199279454.
  • Martin, Louis a Daniel Arasse. De la repre?sentation: question pose?e aux fins d'une histoire de l'art. Seuil, Paris, 1994.
  • PAPOUŠEK, Vladimír, Petr A. BÍLEK, Veronika VERBOVÁ a David SKALICKÝ. Jazyky reprezentace. Praha, Akropolis, 2012.
  • RANCIERE, Jacques. The politics of aesthetics: the distribution of the sensible. New York, Continuum, 2006.
  • SHUSTERMAN, Richard. Estetika pragmatizmu: Krása a umenie života. Kalligram, Bratislava, 2003.
  • Skalický, David. Ozvláštnění - fikce - estetická zkušenost. České Budějovice, Halama, 2017.
  • ZAHRÁDKA, Pavel. (vyd.). Estetika na přelomu milénia. Brno; Barrister & Principal, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87474-11-2.


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