Aesthetics
Objectives
a) To be able to acknowlege the capital importance of the history of philosophy to the contemporary thinking about art;
b) To be able to develop a critical and creative view on the main problems of modern and contemporary aesthetics.
General characterization
Code
73203115
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Maria João Mayer Branco
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
ARISTOTE, L’homme de génie et la mélancholie. Problème XXX, 1 (traduction, présentation et notes de J. Pigeaud), Éditions Payot et Rivages, Paris, 2006
BAUDELAIRE, Charles, Oeuvres complètes, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1980
FREUD, Sigmund, « Deuil et mélancholie » in : Métapsychologie, Gallimard, Paris, 2016, pp. 145-171
FREUD, Sigmund, O mal-estar na civilização, Relógio d’água editores, Lisboa, 2008
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich, A gaia ciência, vol. II Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1996
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich, Humano, demasiado humano I, vol. II, Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1996
Teaching method
The work will be privilege the presentation and discussion of the texts by the students.
Evaluation method
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Subject matter
The seminar will explore the notion and the experience of melancholy and its relation with art in Western culture that has inspired some recent filmography. It will focus on the reading and textual analysis of texts by Aristotle, Nietzsche, Freud and Baudelaire.