Course detail

Analytical Aesthetics - winter

FaVU-ANE-ZAcad. year: 2010/2011

The purpose of the seminar is an attempt to explain the criteria of classifying works of art as paradigmatic in the given genre. The difference between so called inner and outer qualities and inner and outer values will be explained. The boundary cases, when it is not clear whether a work of art belongs to the canon or not, will be discussed. The following argument will be analysed: "The works of art belong to the canon because they are innerly valuable." Students will work with the notions of context, quality, relation, value, supervenience and with the attributes "artistic" and "aesthetic".

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

1. Ability to find premises of aesthetic critical judgments.
2. Knowledge of important ideas and texts in given area.
3. Assumption of and proper use of following concepts: context, aesthetic property, relation, aesthetic, artistic, value supervenience.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Philosophy, bes also Introduction to Aesthetics and Philosophical Methodology.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit given for 80% attendance and activity.

Course curriculum

1. Analytic philosophy: introduction, examples, figures, problems, methods (Plato, Aristotle, Augustin, Frege, Wittgenstein, Carnap).
2. Analytic aesthetics: introduction, examples, figures, problems, methods (Hume, Sibley, Beardsley, Kulka).
3. David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste - reading and comments I.
4. David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste - reading and comments II.
5. David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste - reading and comments III.
6. David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste - reading and comments IV.
7. Frank Sibley: Aesthetic Concepts - reading and comments I.
8. Frank Sibley: Aesthetic Concepts - reading and comments II.
9. Frank Sibley: Aesthetic Concepts - reading and comments III.
10. Frank Sibley: Aesthetic Concepts - reading and comments IV.
11. Kendall Walton: Categories of Arts - reading and comments I.
12. Kendall Walton: Categories of Arts - reading and comments II.
13. Kendall Walton: Categories of Arts - reading and comments III.
14. Kendall Walton: Categories of Arts - reading and comments IV.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The purpose of the seminar is an attempt to explain the criteria of classifying works of art as paradigmatic in the given genre. The method is reading and critical comments of given texts.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Seminary is mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Niederle, R.: Estetika, VUT v Brně, 2004.
Umění, krása, šeredno: texty z estetiky 20. století, Karolinum, Praha, 2004.

Type of course unit

Seminar

54 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.