Aesthetics and the Arts

Code:

MFIL043

Acronym:

EA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Philosophy

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Philosophy
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Philosophy

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MFIL	17	study plan	1	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To map a form of visual and conceptual imagination on the complex scenario of the sense of aesthetics and art in the contemporary age. To reflect on the problematic relationship between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary age To analyze the gesture of creation as a political and aesthetical event. From the poliphony of senses in “contemporary art” to think of art as a resistance act. To create the conditions to conduct an in-depth reflection on the themes included in the programme. This critical work, guided by the specific goals of the work to be carried out by each Masters’ student, will include the problematics to be developed in his/her Masters dissertation.

Learning outcomes and competences

To map a form of visual and conceptual imagination on the complex scenario of the sense of aesthetics and art in the contemporary.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Events. Aesthetical experience and artistic experience: an essential afinity.

1.1. History, childhood and narration.
1.2. Gesture of creation and figures of becoming.
1.3. From the affective versions of the world to the affected subject. Exposure and unexposed.

2. Fictions & Fabulations. The dispersion of the aesthetical experience in the contemporary age.

2.1.The cut, the discontinuous, the fragment and the ephemeral.
2.2. The sublime in the "contemporary"

3. Sismographies. The relationship between aesthetics and politics

3.1. Between presence and representation: power, image and art. Biopolitics.
3.2. The art as a form of resistance and insubmission: body, archive and testimony.
3.3. The inclusion of time in image: disappearing, memory, forgetting.

 

Mandatory literature

RANCIÈRE, Jacques; Le Partage du sensible: esthétique et politique , La Fabrique, 2000
RANCIÈRE, Jacques; Le Spectateur émancipé, La Fabrique, 2008

Complementary Bibliography

AGAMBEN, G.; Infancia e historia. Destrucción de la experiencia y origen de la historia, Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2001
BARROS, N,: VILELA, E.; Performances in the Contemporary I, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2018
BARROS, N,: VILELA, E.; Performances no Contemporâneo II, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2023
BENJAMIN, W. ; Sobre Arte, Técnica, Linguagem e Política, Relógio d'Água, 1992
COMETTI, J.P.; MORIZOT, J.; Dictionnaire d’esthétique et de philosophie de l’art , Armand Colin, 2007
COMETTI, J.P.; MORIZOT, J.; Dictionnaire d’esthétique et de philosophie de l’art , Armand Colin, 2007
DELEUZE, G. ; Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1983
DELEUZE, G.; Cinéma 2. L’image-temps, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1983
DELEUZE, G. ; Francis Bacon. Logique de la Sensation. vol.I & II, Éditions de la Différence, 1996
DERRIDA, J.; Memórias de Cego. O Auto-retrato e Outras Ruínas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2010
DERRIDA, J.; Memórias de Cego. O Auto-retrato e Outras Ruínas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2010
DERRIDA, J.; Artaud le Moma, Galilée, 2002
DIDI-HUBERMAN, G.; Images malgré tout , Les Éditions de Minuit, 2003
FOUCAULT, Michel; L'Ordre du discours , Gallimard, 1971
FOUCAULT, Michel; Dits et Écrits I, II, , Gallimard, 2001
GIL, José; O Imperceptível Devir da Imanência, Relógio D'Água, 2008
Susan Sontag; Regarding the pain of others. ISBN: 0-312-42219-9
Susan Sontag; La^photographie. ISBN: 2-02-005235-0
HAAR, M.; ; L'½uvre d'art. Essai sur l'ontologie des ½uvres , Hatier, 1994
SOURIAU, Etienne ; Vocabulaire d’esthétique, PUF, 2004

Comments from the literature

In addition to the main bibliography references, other references will be given during the classes.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Seminar work from the direct access to the sources. Reading and commentary of text and visual materials. Debate with Portuguese and foreign experts invited to the seminar.
a) Regular attendance to the seminar to ensure a continuous participation in the theoretical debates and work on the texts. b) Each student will write a short paper from the reading and individual study of one of the texts that constitute the main bibliography of the seminar and which will be presented in public in the corresponding session.
c) In a date to be determined a short essay will be presented (maximum 10/15 pages) in which it will be related the ideas developed in the paper mentioned in the previous item (b) with the general conclusions of the Seminar considered by the student as the most relevant for his/her work.

keywords

Humanities > Philosophy

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	5,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	85,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	66,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho de investigação	55,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Calculation formula of final grade

Essay 85% + participation 10% + oral presentation 5%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the assessment Regulations in force at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.

Classification improvement

In accordance with the assessment Regulations in force at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
To the written paper.