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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Introductory meeting - (Zuska, 2001). 2. Traditions and fields of aesthetics (aisthésis). 3. The subject of aesthetics. 4. Aesthetic quality. 5. Aesthetic value. 6. Emotional quality. 7. Beauty and other categories of aesthetics. 8. Beautiful - noble. 9. Aesthetic experience. 10. Work of art (definition, ontology, value). 11. Basic aesthetic theories (continental and Anglo-American tradition, pragmatism, procedural aesthetics, structuralist aesthetics and Czech structuralism, poststructuralist theories). 12. Contemporary theory of art. 13. Contemporary theories of representation.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to get acquainted with aesthetics as a "current traditional discipline" (Zuska, 2001) and the related basic terminology of the field, with its methods and topics in the main aesthetic systems. With the subsequent possibility of further application within the current tendencies of the field and the connection with the theory of representation and reflection of art and non-artistic aesthetics. An important part of the course are also interdisciplinary overlaps and links of aesthetics (eg archaeological, anthropological, social and political aspects, poetics and narratology, cultural circulation).
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.
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Prerequisites
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Successful completion of the previous study
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Attendance
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Recommended literature
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Hadravová, Tereza. Co je nového v estetice. Praha: Nová beseda, 2016.
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KULKA, T. Umění a falzum. Praha, 2004.
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Kulka, T. Umění a kýč. Torst, 2000.
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RANCIERE, Jacques. The politics of aesthetics: the distribution of the sensible. New York, Continuum, 2006.
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ZAHRÁDKA, Pavel. (vyd.). Estetika na přelomu milénia. Brno; Barrister & Principal, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87474-11-2.
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Zuska, Vlastimil. Estetika, úvod do současnosti tradiční disciplíny. Praha, Triton, 2001.
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