Art and Experience
Code
722031033
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To acquire an understanding of the specificity of Aesthetics and its problems and its relation to the philosophy of art.
b) The acquire a clear understanding of the notion of aesthetic experience on the basis of the meaning the concepts of experience and aesthetic experience have acquired in the history of philosophy.
c) To acquire the capacity to problematize the meaning and significance of this notion for the interpretation of contemporary art.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
Six philosophical plays of modernity will be analysed in questioning the relationship between Theatre and Philosophy in Modernity, that is, how experimental modern philosophy, from Descartes to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and, later, to Existentialism, may help us to understand these particular plays and in turn how theatre can assist philosophy in exploring the plurality of human existence in our confused modern world. These are the six plays at stake:
Heinrich von Kleist The Prince of Homburg (1821)
Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler (1891)
Fernando Pessoa The Mariner (1913)
Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922)
Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage (1939)
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (1953)
Bibliography
BENJAMIN, W., O que é o teatro épico in: Iluminações
BENJAMIN, W., Destino e carácter
KIERKEGAARD, S.; A crise e a crise na vida de uma actriz
KLEIST, H. v.; Obras Completas
LUKÁCS, G., A Metafísica da Tragédia in: Alma e forma
NIETZSCHE, F., Kritische Studienausgabe, Colli, G./ Montinari, M. (ed.), Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1980, 15 vols.
BENJAMIN, W.;
-. What is Epic Theatre? in Illuminations
-. Fate and Character in Selected Writings I
KIERKEGAARD, S.; The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress
KLEIST, H. v.; The Marionette Theatre. Online: http://www.southerncrossreview.org/9/kleist.htm
LUKÁCS, G.; The Metaphysics of Tragedy, in Soul and Form
NIETZSCHE, F., Kritische Studienausgabe, Colli, G./ Montinari, M. (ed.), Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1980, 15 vols.
RYAN, Ba.; Kierkegaards Experimental Theatre of the Self
Published in the e-book \"From Hamann to Kierkegaard\" - Experimentation & Dissidence Workshop 1, 2017: http://experimentation-dissidence.umadesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/From-Hamann-to-Kierkegaard_e-book.pdf
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.
Evaluation method
(d) students are evaluated by a mandatory 12 pages essay; (e) students are also evaluated by an oral presentation of their essay; (f) a positive participation in the classes is valued.