Aesthetics and Ontology
Code
722031042
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
João Pardana Constâncio
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) To acquire advanced critical knowledge of fundamental theses and problems of Aesthetics and Ontology.
2) To acquire advanced critical knowledge of how certain fundamental theses and problems of Aesthetics and Ontology fit into the philosophical tradition.
3) To acquire the capacity to reflect on the relationship between the history of Aesthetics and Ontology and the history of Art and Culture.
4) To understand the relevance of the philosophical tradition for the understanding of contemporary issues of Aesthetics and Ontology.
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
a) The syllabus is coherent with objectives 1) and 2) of the curricular unit because the main authors to be studied are all of them key-figures in the history of Aesthetics and Ontology.
b) The syllabus is coherent with objective 3) of the curricular unit because the course will deal with the connection between the ideas of those authors and the evolution of Fine Art, especially as revealed in the collections of the two Gulbenkian museums in Lisbon.
(c) The syllabus is coherent with objective 4) of the curricular unit because the course will deal with the connection between those authors´ work and recent problematizations of the main issues in Aesthetics and Ontology.
Bibliography
-Clark, T. J. (1999). The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. Revised Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
-Clark, T. J. (1999). Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
-Constâncio, J. (2013). Arte e niilismo: Nietzsche e o enigma do mundo. Lisboa: tinta-da-china.
-Constâncio, J., Branco, M.J.M., & Ryan, B. (Eds.) (2015). Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter.
-Constâncio, J., Branco, M. J M., & Marton, S. (Org.) (2014). Sujeito, décadence, arte: Nietzsche e a modernidade. Lisboa: tinta-da-china.
-Harvey, D. (1990). The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell.
-Pippin, R. B. (1999). Modernism as a Philosophical Problem. Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
-Pippin, R. B. (2014). After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Teaching method
(a) most classes are dialogued lectures, (b) several of them work as a \"seminar\" (with reading, commentary, and analyses of texts), (c) other classes (so-called \"practical\" classes) consist in critical discussions — with the students — of previously presented themes and problems.
Within the context of a protocol signed with the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the philosophical analyses of works of art will fundamentally focus on examples from the collections of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian and the Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM). Maria João Branco will teach a set of classes on key-works of the CAM and their relevance for the course’s themes.
Evaluation method
(d) students are evaluated by a mandatory 12 pages essay (70%); (e) students are also evaluated by an oral presentation of their essay (20%); (f) a positive participation in the classes is valued (10%).