Aesthetics I

Code:

FLUP0013

Acronym:

EST1

Instance: 2006/2007 - 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	75	Official Study Plan - LFIL	2	3	6	-
		Plano oficial 2003 - 1º ao 3º ano	2	3	6	-
HA	5	Official Study Plan - LHA	2	3	6	-
			3

Objectives

This subject is designed to:
Engage students in the study of some of the most important texts produced in the field of Aesthetics;
Provide students with issues, concepts and conceptual relations for an understanding of artistic and aesthetic objects;
Motivate and develop in students an appreciation for artistic objects, namely contemporary productions;
Encourage students' visual and conceptual imagination.

Program

1. What do we talk about when we talk about Aesthetics? Delimitation*
- from the etymological meaning to Aesthetics as a philosophical discipline
- 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

(* the issues listed above in 1. will be resumed and reformulated when interpretating authors/texts of the philosophical and aesthetic tradition presented below; see also programme for Aesthetics II)

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
- art subject to the Truth

3. Kant: modern subjectification 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 between the aesthetic experience ad universality
- from beauty to the sublime. Readings on 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 –A invenção do gosto na época democrática, Almedina, 2003
GIOVINE, S., Historia de la estética, Tecnos, Madrid, 1990
HUISMAN, D., A Estética, ed. 70, 1997
JIMÉNEZ, J., Teoría del arte, Tecnos, Madrid, 2002
JIMENEZ, 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 XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, Gallimard, 1992
TOWNSEND, D., Introdução à Estética. História. Correntes. Teorias., ed. 70, 2002

Complementary Bibliography

References to additional readings will be indicated throughout the semester; including other materials other than written texts.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures resorting to texts, indicated beforehand, and audio-visual materials; possible supervision of written assignments, as an alternative to the final exam.

Software

No specific software required.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Students are required to attend at least 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Mark of the exam OR average sum of the marks obtained in the exam and in the submitted written assignments.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Language of instruction: Portuguese.