Aesthetics - 2nd semester
Code
73203115
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
João Pardana Constâncio, Maria João Mayer Branco
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To be able to recognize the crucial importance of the history of philosophy for contemporary thought on Art;
b) To be able to develop a perspective at the same time critical and creative about the fundamental problems of Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics;
c) To acquire advanced knowledge of the funamental problems of Aesthetics and its history, as well as the in which this history connects with contemporary issues about Art;
d) To be able to identify, follow and discuss some of the most important current debates in the field of Art.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
I. Theme: Aesthetics, Emancipation, and Participation in Jacques Rancière— reflecting on the present via the tradition of post-Kantian Aesthetics.
II. Program:
The course consists in a close reading, analysis, commentary, and discussion of Jacques Ranciêre´s book, Le spectateur émancipé, La Fabrique éditions, Paris, 2008. This close reading serves as a starting point for the study of the emancipatory tradition in Kantian and post-Kantian Aesthetics, but also for such contemporary works on Art and the History of Art as Claire Bishop´s, Artificial Hells.
Bibliography
ARENDT, Hannah, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1992
BERNSTEIN, J.M., The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno
BISHOP, Claire, Artificial Hells, London/New York, Verso Books, 2012
BOWIE, Andrew, Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche, Manchester/ New York, Manchester University Press, 2003
CLARK, T.J., Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1999
CONSTÂNCIO, J./ BRANCO, M.J.M./ RYAN, B. (Eds.), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity, Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter, 2015
DUVE, Thierry de, Kant after Duchamp, Cambridge, Massachussetts/ London, England, the MIT Press, 1996
EAGLETON, Terry, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Oxford, Blackwell, 1990
RANCIÈRE, Jacques, Le spectateur émancipé, La Fabrique éditions, Paris, 2008 / O espe
Teaching method
Teaching methods:
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 teacher’s 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
Evaluation:
Participation and engagement in the Seminar: 20% Presentations: 30%
Essay about one of the Seminar’s topics: 50%