Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics (20133)
Degree/study: Grade in Humanities
Year: 3rd
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication:
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: Tamara Djermanovic / Camilo Hoyos
1. Presentation of the subject
From Kant to the 20th century.
Study and interpretation of philosophical reflections' most outstanding historical periods, schools, movements, works and authors. The subject will focus on the modern and contemporary periods.
2. Competences to be attained
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General competences |
Specific competences |
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Introduction to reflecting on western art and creativity (18th-20th centuries) |
Students will acquire the fundamental ideas about the authors' thought and works, and they will be able to express them |
3. Contents
Unit 1. Introduction. Genealogy and history of aesthetic matters
Unit 2. Time of aesthetics. Rational and systematic reflection about art
2.1. Kant: analysing the aesthetic experience
2.2. Hegel: art dialectics
Unit 3. Aesthetic education: art, thought, moral
3.1. Schiller: starting with the aesthetic problem to solve the political problem
3.2. Goethe. Aesthetic reflections
Unit 4. Romanticism and symbolism: poetry as truth and symbol
4.1 Shelley's "A defence of poetry"
4.2 Baudelaire and correspondences
4.3 Rimbaud's perceptiveness
4.4 Lautréamont's poetic image
Unit. Surrealism and the inversion of values
5.1 Louis Aragon's "modern mythology"
5.2 André Breton and the "objective chance"
*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.
4. Assessment
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5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
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5.2. Complementary bibliography
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5.3. Teaching resources
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6. Metodology
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7. Planning of activities
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