Преподавател(и):

проф. Лидия Денкова  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

After completing successfully this course the students will:

1) know:

• The central aesthetics writings and authors with their concepts and profound impact on the development of contemporary thought;

2) are capable of:

• Understanding the value of Beauty and Art; and they will be able to approach in interdisciplinary context the most significant philosophical ideas.

Предварителни изисквания:
none

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1. Introduction to Aesthetics. The most distinctive features of Aesthetics as “theory”. Aesthetic codes
2. The concept of Beauty and “Why Beauty matters?”. The Beauty as Idea and “paradeigma”. Roger Scruton, "Beauty"
3. Two fundamental notions: “poiesis” and “praxis”. The art as “techne”.
4. Plato’s Aesthetics in “Symposium” , “Philebus” and “The Republic”. Medieval tradition.
5. Aristotle’s Poetics and the Birth of tragedy. Art as "energeia" and "techne".
6. The concept of Sublime: Longinus, Burke and Kant
7. Aesthetic theories in Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci Treatise on painting. Neoplatonic views: Marsilio Ficino and Lorenzo Valla The Monadology of Leibniz and his aesthetic value.
8. Aesthetic theories in 18 Century. Yves-Marie Andre and the model of music. Diderot, Hume, Hutcheson. The question of taste. Ethics and Aesthetics: Shiller.
9. The beginning of Modern thought in “homo aestheticus” of Nietzsche: Apollonian and Dionysian sources of creativity. The perception and the perspective.
10. Ontology of art. Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger.
11. Existentialist Aesthetics: the “system of the arts”. The heritage of Hegel's Aesthetics.
12. Art as revelation of the world and self-expression. Psychology of art. The “end” of art: Arthur Danto
13. Aesthetics and narration. The recurrence of great myths. Visual arts and the predominance of the “images”. The example of Cinema.
14. Contemporary Aesthetics in philosophical perspective. Part one.
15. Contemporary Aesthetics in philosophical perspective. The philosopher and the artist: Merleau-Ponty and "The doubt of Cezanne".

Литература по темите:

Suggested Readings:

Basic reader for the course: Philosophies of Art and Beauty. Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger. Edited by Albert Hofstadter and Richard Kuhns. The University of Chicago Press, 1976.

The Phenomenology Reader. Edited by D. Moran and T. Mooney, Routledge, 2002.

Plato. Complete works. Edited by John M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing Company, 1997.

The Oxford handbook of Aesthetics. Edited by Jerrold Levinson. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Entries related to Aesthetics in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu).

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-aesthetics/

Roman Ingarden. The Ontology of Art: The Musical Work, Painting, Architecture, the Film, Athens, Ohio University Press, 1989.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1963): Essays in Aesthetics, trans. by Wade Baskin, London: Peter Owen.

Aesthetic Science. Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Sense and non-sense, Northwestern University Press,1964.

Roger Scruton. Beauty. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Etienne Souriau. Vocabulaire d'esthetique. P., PUF, 2004.

Jacques Ranciere. The future of the Image. Verso; Reprint edition,2009.