Course: Systematic Aesthetics

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Course title Systematic Aesthetics
Course code KFHS/KB315
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Řebíková Barbora, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Thematic plan of the course is following: 1. Introduction into philosophical and aesthetical thinking 2. Aesthetics as philosophical discipline and system of terms 3. Aesthetic object (time object, heteronomous objectivity) 4. Aesthetics experience 5. Non-interest and aesthetic distance 6. Aesthetic attitude 7. Aesthetic and emotional quality 8. Aesthetic value 9. Beauty and other categories of aesthetics 10. Environmental aesthetics 11. The contemporary Czech aesthetics 12. Aesthetic cognitivism 13. The contemporary art and options of aesthetics

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course will introduces the students in detail with aesthetics as philosophical discipline, its main terms, thesis, thoughts, methods and options of interpretation of the art and aesthetic outside the art. It will introduce family silver of this discipline such as in particular aesthetic subject, aesthetic experience, aesthetic quality and aesthetic value and options of aesthetics analysis based on this terms. It will focus mostly on the present form of aesthetics but briefly will introduce to the students as well its development and its state here. Aesthetics will be strictly defined contra other fine arts disciplines and the attention will be drawn to main differences in their methods and the subject of exploration.
A student will gain the overview in main aesthetic theories. He/she will develop the term basis needed for understanding of aesthetic sciences. He/she will be capable of independent argumentation. He/she will develop the ability to understand the texts and discuss and think independently within aesthetics.
Prerequisites
None.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
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Recommended literature
  • JŮZL, Milan, PROKOP, Dušan. Úvod do estetiky: předmět a metody, dějiny, systém estetických kategorií a pojmů.. Praha, 1989. ISBN 80-7038-051-9.
  • PROKOP, Dušan. Obecná uměnověda. Stručný přehled a úvod. Praha, 1994. ISBN 80-85829-04-5.
  • STIBRAL, Karel. Proč je příroda krásná?. Praha, 2005. ISBN 80-7363-008-7.
  • ZAHRÁDKA, Pavel. (vyd.). Estetika na přelomu milénia. Brno; Barrister & Principal, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87474-11-2.
  • Zuska, Vlastimil. Estetika, úvod do současnosti tradiční disciplíny. Praha, Triton, 2001.
  • ZUSKA, Vlastimil. (vyd.). Mimésis ? fikce ? distance. K estetice XX. století. Praha, 2002.


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