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The graduate of the class should be capable to interprete the most influential philosophical conceptions of art, to understand basic concepts of the philosophy of art and to be able to place them into the overal framework of the history of art and its theoretical reflection.

Basic orientation in the history of (especially modern) art, general view of the main periods and names of european philosophy.

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The classwork is based on the combination of lectures, aimed at the general introducing of a topic, with collective reading of short philosophical texts.

Essay

1. Introduction to philosophy. What is philosophy? Aesthetics and philosophy of art.
2. The beginnings of philosophy. The ancient notion of art: techné. Artes liberales and artes mechanicae.
3. Art as mimesis. Plato and Aristotle.
4. The changes of the notion of art through history. The middle ages, the rennaissance, the enlightment. The origin and birth of the "modern system of art."
5. The birth of aesthetics as a philosophical disciplnie. The basic aesthetic categories - disinterestedness, taste, the sublime. 18th century aesthetics.
6. Kant and aesthetics. The characteristics of Kant's philosophy. The Critique of Judgement. Kant's basic terminology: taste, beauty, the sublime, genius. The beginnings of formalism in art.
7. Classical German aesthetics. Winckelmann. Lessing. Goethe and Schiller. The autonomy of the work of art and the educational role of art.
8. Romantic aesthetics. Hölderlin, Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis. Romantic irony. Art as expression.
9. Hegel's aesthetics. The characteristics of Hegel's philosophy. Beuty as the sensual manifestation of ideas and art as the embodiment of the absolute spirit.
10. Selected issues of the mid 19th century philosophy of art. Baudelaire and modernity. L’art pour l’art. Kierkegaard and the aesthetic existence. Wilde and aestheticism.
11. Marxism and realism in art theory. Introduction to marxist methodology. Lukács.The theory of reflection.
12. Nietzche. The notion of the Apollonian and Dionysian principles.

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The goal of the class is to introduce students with the basic concepts, methods and topics of the philosopical reflection of art.

Lectures are optional.

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