Aesthetics 2400-OG-EN-AES
Konwersatorium (KON) Semestr zimowy 2018/19

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I. Introduction - a seminar lecture

II. The problem of the objectivity of aesthetic judgments: conventionalism vs. naturalism (David Hume’s and Edmund Burke’s proposals)

III. Transcendentalism in aesthetics; Immanuel Kant and the “antinomy of taste”

IV. The history of the notion of beauty, dependent and free beauty.

V. Aesthetic idealism – Shaftesbury’s conception of natural sympathy of forms

VI. The sublime – the history of the notion.

VII. Comedy and tragedy.

VIII. Contemporary critique of disinterestedness. G. Santayana and the “sense of beauty”.

IX. he notion of the work of art – history (Aristotle, Ch. Batteux, I. Kant)

X. Between dehumanization and the human world – J. Ortega y Gasset and M. Heidegger on works of art.

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