15MKMK029 - History of Aesthetics

Course specification
Course title History of Aesthetics
Acronym 15MKMK029
Study programme Hungarian language and literature
Module
Type of study first degree undergraduate academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
    Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
      ESPB 3.0 Status
      Condition Oblik uslovljenosti
      The goal The goal of the course is to enable gaining of knowledge in relation to the basic aesthetic problems. The aim of the course is to articulate the problems and phenomena of aesthetic thinking, and to present the relevant texts in the domain of aesthetics.
      The outcome The students will identify the original texts of the most significant authors in aesthetics concerning Hungary and the world, the difference between theoretical and aesthetic approaches as well as the connections amongs literary aesthetics, case studies of film, photography and aesthetic aesthetics.
      Contents
      Contents of lectures The concept and subject of the traditional aesthetics. Aesthetic and casual experience. The beauty as the universal object of aesthetics. Excerpts from the history of ancient aesthetics. The issues of mimesis and catharsis. Interpretations of the beauty in middle age. Classical German aesthetics, moments of taste, Kant. Schiller, Goethe. The world as will and play. Aesthetics of the 20th century, modernism and aesthetics of ugliness. Position of Hungarian theoreticians related to esthetics.
      Contents of exercises
      Literature
      1. Hans Georg GADAMER (1994) A szép aktualitása. Budapest (Original title)
      2. Friedrich SCHILLER (1960) A naív és a szentimentális költészetről, in: Válogatott esztétikai írások, Budapest (Original title)
      3. Immanuel KANT (1996) A szép analitikája. In: Az ítélőerő kritikája, Szeged (Original title)
      4. J.M. LOTMAN (1977) Filmszemiotika és filmesztétika, Budapest (Original title)
      5. DANTO, Arthur C (2003) A közhely színeváltozása. Művészetfilozófia. Budapest (Original title)
      Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
      Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
      2 0
      Methods of teaching Lecture with discussion work
      Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
      Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
      Activites during lectures 10 Test paper
      Practical lessons Oral examination 70
      Projects
      Colloquia
      Seminars 20
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