Aesthetics and General Theory of Arts

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Subject guarantor:

Štěpán KUBALÍK

Name of lecturer(s):

Štěpán KUBALÍK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The student should, from the course, acquire a bearing in basic contemporary theory approaches to art and based on this also independently become acquainted with philosophic discourse about art. critically review and encapture the concepts of their personal experience and formulate their own opinions.

Mode of study:

Classes with explications

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Familiarity with the concepts and issues of theatre aesthetics. Knowledge of the history of drama and theater at the bachelor's level. A broader cultural overview. Interest in general aesthetics and philosophy. Professional text analysis skills.

Course contents:

In the Course „Aesthetics and General Arts Theory“, students, based on readings of primarily professional writings, are acquainted with selected topics of the philosophical review of art, in the selection of which emphasis will be placed, primarily, on the localization of art and experience with artistic works in the whole of human experience. Attention will be devoted, in particular, to relationships of art with other parts of culture (in a broad sense). Art will be viewed not as a sphere separate from other human activity but primarily as an integral part of life experience (as such and to a particular extent analyzable concept tools whose application significantly reaches only into some areas of the arts.)

Recommended or required reading:

Studies will be assigned by the instructor from the following:

Austin, John L.: Jak udělat něco slovy, Filosofia, Praha 2000.

Barthes, Roland: Kritika a pravda. Praha: Liberec, 1997.

Cavell, Stanley: „Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy,“ In: týž, Must We Mean What We Say (2. edition), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002.

Figal, Günter: Hermeneutická svoboda, Filosofia, Praha 1994.

Gadamer, Hans Georg: Člověk a řeč, OIKOYMENH, Praha 1999.

Glanc, Tomáš (ed.): Exotika : výbor z prací tartuské školy, Host, Brno 2003.

Goodman, Nelson: Jazyky umění, Academia, Praha 2007.

Heidegger, Martin: Básnicky bydlí člověk, OIKOYMENH, Praha 1993.

Heidegger, Martin: Co je metafyzika, OIKOYMENH, Praha 1993.

Husserl, Edmund: Idea fenomenologie, OIKOYMENH, Praha 2001.

Husserl, Edmund: Ideje k čisté fenomenologii a fenomenologické filosofii I, OIKOYMENH, Praha 2004.

Ingarden, Roman: O poznávání literárního díla, Československý spisovatel, Praha 1964.

Ingarden, Roman: Umělecké dílo literární, Odeon, Praha 1989.

Ingarden, Roman: „Problémy formy a obsahu v literárním díle,“ Blok, No. 2, 1947-1948, s. 4-7.

Iser, Wolfgang: „Proces čtení ve fenomenologickém pohledu,“ Aluze, No. 2, 2002, s. 106-117.

Jakobson, Roman: Poetická funkce, H & H, Jinočany1995.

Jankovič, Milan: Nesamozřejmost smyslu, Čs. Spisovatel, Praha 1991.

Lotman, Jurij M.: Štruktúra umeleckého textu. Tatran, Bratislava, 1990.

Lotman, Jurij M.: Text a kultúra. Bratislava: Archa, 1994.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice: Svět vnímání, OIKOYMENH, Praha 2008.

Mukařovský, Jan: Studie I, Host, Brno 2007.

Mukařovský, Jan: Studie II, Host, Brno 2007.

Patočka, Jan: „Epičnost a dramatičnost, epos a drama,“ Divadlo, No. 12, 1966, s.1-6.

Patočka, Jan: „Svět Ivana Vyskočila,“ In: týž, Umění a čas I, OIKOYMENH, Praha 2004.

Ricoeur, Paul: „Struktura a hermeneutika,“ In: Kyloušek, Petr (ed.): Znak, struktura, vyprávění. Výbor z prací francouzského strukturalismu. Host, Brno 2002, s. 272-304.

Saussure, Ferdinand de: Kurs obecné lingvistiky, Odeon, Praha, 1989

Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Filosofická zkoumání, Filosofia, Praha 1993.

Recommended reading:

Barthes, Roland: Mytologie, Dokořán, Praha 2004.

Culler, Jonathan: Structuralist Poetics. Routledge, London 1973.

Gadamer, Hans Georg: „Sémantika a hermeneutika,“ Aluze, No. 1, 2003, s. 109-114.

Michalovič, Peter a Minár, Pavol: Úvod do štrukturalizmu a postštrukturalizmu. Iris, Bratislava 1997.

Peter Steiner: „The Conceptual Basis of Prague Structuralism,“ In: Matejka, Ladislav (ed.): Sound, Sign and Meaning. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1978, s. 351-385.

Kubalík, Štěpán: „Estetický znak u Nelsona Goodmana a Jana Mukařovského“, Filosofický časopis - Mimořádné číslo 2012/1 (Studie k filosofii N. Goodmana), s. 91-112.

Ricoeur, Paul: Úkol hermeneutiky: eseje o hermeneutice, Filosofia, Praha 2004.

Zahrádka, Pavel (ed.): Estetika na přelomu milénia - Vybrané problémy současné estetiky. Barrister & Principal, Brno 2010.

Zuska, Vlastimil (ed.): Umění, krása, šeredno. Texty z estetiky 20. století. Karolinum, Praha 2003.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Class participation (max 20% absence), presentation of at least one professional writing during a semester for the others of the study group.

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Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	místnost S412 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–16:30 (přednášková par. 1)
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	15:00–16:30		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

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