Aesthetics I

Code:

FLUP0013

Acronym:

EST1

Instance: 2003/2004 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Philosophy
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
FIL	60	Official Study Plan - LFIL	2	3	6	-
		Plano oficial 2003 - 1º ao 3º ano	2	3	6	-
HA	9	Official Study Plan - LHA	2	3	6	-
			3
		Official Study Plan - LHA	2	3	6	-
			3
		Plano oficial a partir de 2002	2	3	6	-
			3

Objectives

To study some of the most important texts produced in the field of Aesthetics
To provide questions, concepts and instruments for the understanding of artistic objects
To motivate and develop the appreciation for artistic objects
To encourage the visual and conceptual imagination.

Program

1. What do we mean when we talk about Aesthetics? Delimitation
- from the etymological meaning to Aesthetics as a philosophical subject
- paradoxical dimension of Aesthetics
- rationalization of the aesthetic and artistic experiences – a relative failure
- restricting Aesthetics to a subjective reflection on art
- aesthetic object and work of art
- the aesthetic experience. Its conditions and implications. Aesthetic and artistic experiences: an essential affinity
- Aesthetic experience and everyday life. The “usage” of the aesthetic object
- Manifestation of the “self” of/in the aesthetic experience. From the affective versions of the world to an affected “self”. Exposure and the Unexposed
- Aesthetic/artistic experience and “infantia”. A re-initiation to the world

2. Plato: recognition of the affective character of art
- art as mimesis and the transitional character of the aesthetic experience
- the risks of the aesthetics experience: the demand for legislation
- affection and childhood
- the art submitted to the Truth

3. Kant: the modern subjective analysis of Aesthetics
- autonomous aesthetics and its modern restrictions. The non-transitional character of the aesthetic experience
- a second Copernican revolution? Beauty: a subjective representation. The aesthetic-based judgement. The antinomy of taste
- the privilege of natural beauty. Aesthetic design
- aesthetic judgement and common sense: the confrontation of the aesthetic experience with the universality
- from beauty to the sublime. Readings about the sublime in contemporary Aesthetics and in art (introduction).

Main Bibliography

Bozal, V., El gusto, Visor, Madrid, 1999
Cauquelin, A., Petit traité d’art contemporain, Seuil, Paris, 1996
Ferry, L., Homo aestheticus – L’invention du gôut à l’âge démocratique, Grasset, 1990
Giovine, S., Historia de la estética, Tecnos, Madrid, 1990
Huisman, D., A Estética, ed. 70, 1997
Jiménez, J., Teoría del arte, Tecnos, Madrid, 2002
Jímenez, M., Qu’est-ce que l’esthétique, Gallimard, 1997
Lyotard, J.-F., L’inhumain. Causeries sur le temps, Galilée, 1988
Millet, Catherine, A arte contemporânea, Instituto Piaget, 2000
Schaeffer , J.-M., Adieu à l’esthétique, Puf, 2000
Schaeffer, J.-M., L’art de l’âge moderne. L’esthétique et la philosophie de l’art du XVIIIem siècle à nos jours, Gallimard, 1992

Complementary Bibliography

será indicada ao longo das aulas;integra outras formas de inscrição para além do texto

Teaching methods and learning activities

exposition of issues based on texts and audiovisual aids

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam