Aesthetics, Politics and Arts

Code:

DFIL015

Acronym:

EPA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Philosophy

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Philosophy
Course/CS Responsible:	Third cycle of studies in Philosophy

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DFIL	8	study plan	1	-	15	45	405

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To map the complex scenario of the meaning of contemporary aesthetics, politics and art, from the point of view of a visual and conceptual imagination.
To think about the gesture of creation as an ethical, political and aesthetical event. 
To create the conditions for a profound questioning about the themes in this subject. Such critical work must be oriented by the guidelines of each student’s project, and will include the issues to explore in his/her PhD dissertation.

Learning outcomes and competences

A profound questioning about the themes in this subject. Such critical work must be oriented by the guidelines of each student’s project, and will include the issues to explore in his/her PhD dissertation.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Theme: Art as an event.
Map of the meaning of contemporary aesthetics, politics and art, from the point of view of a visual and conceptual imagination.

1. The aesthetic experience as a gesture of ongoing creation of senses 
1.1. History, childhood and narration.

2. The event of the silence and the look
2.1. The rhythm of the look. Rhythm, form and silence: “the form in formation”. Rhythm, a way of showing what shows: a form of the world. “To make of presence an act”: birth and death as inexpressible rupture.

3. Dispersion of the aesthetic experience in contemporaneity
3.1. The cut, the discontinuous, the fragment and the ephemeral.

4. Art as a way of resilience and insubmission 
4.1. The relation between aesthetics and politics: body, archive and testimony.
4.2. Between presence and representation: power, image, art.
4.3. The inclusion of time in an image: disappearing, memory, forgetfulness.

Mandatory literature

AGAMBEN, G. ; Enfance et histoire, Paris: Payot, 2000
AGAMBEN, G. ; O poder soberano e a vida nua. Homo Sacer , Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1998
AGAMBEN, G.; Homo Sacer, II.1 L’État d’exception , Seuil: Paris, 2003
ARENDT, Hannah; A condição humana , Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 2001
ARENDT, Hannah ; Entre el pasado y el futuro, Barcelona: Península, 1996
BARTHES, R. ; La chambre claire, Paris : Gallimard, 1980
BENJAMIN, W. ; Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política, Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 1992
BENJAMIN, W. ; «L’½uvre d’art à l’ère de sa reproductibilité technique», ¼uvres III , Paris: Gallimard, 2000
BUCI-GLUCKSMANN, C. ; Court traité sur l’éphémère, Paris : Aubier, 1986
DELEUZE, G. ; Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement. & Cinéma 2. L’image-temps, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1983
DELEUZE, Gilles; Mille Plateaux , Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1980
DERRIDA, J.,; Artaud le Moma, Paris: Galilée, 2002
DIDI-HUBERMAN, G. ; Images malgré tout, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 2003
FOUCAULT, M. ; L'ordre du discours, Paris: Gallimard, 1971
FOUCAULT, Michel; Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique , Paris:Gallimard , 1972
FOUCAULT, Michel; Dits et Écrits I, II, Paris: Gallimard,, 2001
FOUCAULT, Michel ; La volonté de savoir. Histoire de la sexualité I , Paris: Gallimard, 1976
FOUCAULT, Michel; Naissance de la clinique. Une archéologie du regard medical , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1963
GIL, J.; O Imperceptível Devir da Imanência, Relógio d'Água, 2008
MERLEAU PONTY, M. ; L’½il et l’esprit, Paris: Gallimard, 2006
NIETZSCHE, F. ; La naissance de la tragédie, Paris: Gallimard, 1989
RANCIÈRE, J. ; Le partage du sensible: esthétique et politique, Paris: La Fabrique , 2000
RANCIÈRE, J.; Le spectateur emancipé, Paris: La Fabrique, 2008
SOURIAU, E. ; Vocabulaire d’esthétique, Paris: PUF, 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

Seminar work, starting from the sources. Reading and comment on visual and textual materials. Discussion with national and foreign experts, invited for the seminar. a) Regular assistance to the seminar, so as to ensure a continuous participation in theoretical discussions and in the work about the texts. b) Each student will write a short presentation, starting from texts of the course’s fundamental documentation, which will be defended publicly in the corresponding session. c) In a date to be determined, a short essay will be presented (maximum 10/15 pages), where the ideas developed in point b) will be associated to the most relevant conclusions of the Seminar.

keywords

Humanities > Philosophy > Aesthetics
Humanities > Philosophy

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho escrito	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	200,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho de investigação	160,00
Total:	405,00

Eligibility for exams

According to FLUP regulations.

Calculation formula of final grade

Average of the score given to the participation and works accomplished throughout the semester (25%) and final Seminar work [presentation/oral defense of the work and written presentation] (75%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Each student may suggest research works to develop throughout the semester, which will be considered if included in the Seminar’s final work.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Special seasons and special length of the tests, adapted to particular cases which might be registered as students.

Classification improvement

Presentation of final writen work.

Observations

Teaching Language: Portuguese