Aesthetics
Code
73203115
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
João Pardana Constâncio
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To be able to recognize the crucial relevance of the History of Philosophy to contemporary thought about the Arts;
b) To be able to develop a critical and creative approach to the fundamental problems of Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics;
c) To acquire advanced knowledge of the fundamental problems and history of Aesthetics, as well as of its connection to contemporary Art;
d) To be able to identify and discuss some of the most important debates on contemporary Aesthetics and the Arts.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. Introduction to the concept of Modernity via an analysis of Kants Aesthetics. The radical nature of the Kantian conceptions of Subjectivity and Autonomy and Kants break with all pre-modern conceptions of Art and Taste.
2. From Kant to Nietzsche: reconfigurations and problematizations of Subjectivity and Autonomy in Romanticism, Schopenhauer, and Hegel;
3. The Nietzschean revolution. Nietzsches radical critique of Modernity via the critique of Subjectivity and Autonomy, particularly in the aesthetic domain.
4. Post-Kantian and Post-Nietzschean problems in contemporary Aesthetics and Art. Discussion of fundamental problems raised by such authors as Heidegger, Adorno, Deleuze or iek. The relations between these issues and contemporary Art.
Bibliography
-BERNSTEIN, J. M., The Fate of Art, Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992
-BOWIE, A., Aesthetics and Subjectivity, From Kant to Nietzsche, second ed., Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2003
-CONSTÂNCIO, J. / BRANCO, M.J.M. (eds.), Nietzsche on Instinct and Language, Berlin/ Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2011
-CONSTÂNCIO, J., On Consciousness: Nietzsches Departure from Schopenhaeur, Nietzsche-Studien 40 (2011), pp. 1-42
-DUVE, T. de, Kant after Duchamp, Cambridge Mass./ London, MIT Press, 1996
-EAGLETON, T., The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Oxford, Blackwell, 1990
-KEMAL, S./ GASKELL, I./ CONWAY, D. W. (eds.), Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998
-NEHAMAS, A., Only a Promise of Happiness, The Place of Beauty in the World of Art, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2007
-PIPPIN; R. B., Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, second edition, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999
Teaching method
The seminary format allows for a teaching methodology that maximizes the potentialities of collective research by encouraging the collective discussion of basic texts, as well as the collective discussion of the teachers ideas.
Students will be invited to deliver presentations on contemporary authors and contemporary issues of Aesthetics. This aims at fostering a fruitful dialogue between the philosophical tradition and contemporary Art.
Evaluation method
Participation and engagement in the Seminar: 20% Presentations: 30%
Essay about one of the Seminars topics: 50%