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Aesthetics and Ontology

Objectives

i) reading and analysis of fundamental modern and contemporary philosophic texts on art
ii) identification of categories, concepts, and problems implied in the philosophic reflection about aesthetic experience and artistic creation
iii) understanding the context of the origins of Aesthetics within modern philosophic thinking
iv) critical understanding of the contribution of Aesthetics to the questioning of Western culture about its own developments

General characterization

Code

722031042

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

António Jorge de Castro Caeiro

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Does not apply.

Bibliography

1) Caeiro, António de Castro (2017). Píndaro. Odes Olímpicas. Lisboa, Abysmo.
Caeiro, Antóino de Castro (2010). Píndaro Odes. Lisboa, Quetzal.
Theunissen, M. (2008). Pindar: Menschenlos und Wende der Zeit. C.H. Beck.
2) Michael Knaupp (2019). Hölderlin, Friedrich, Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, 3 vols. München, Carl Hanser Verlag.
Dastur, Françoise (1997). Hölderlin. Le retournement natal, La Versanne, Encre Marine.
Fóti, Véronique (2006). Epochal Discordance: Hölderlin’s Philosophy of Tragedy, Albany, SUNY Press.

Teaching method

The seminarial sessions consist of moments of oral exposition of the problems and concepts proposed as well as of the reading and discussion of the texts. The evaluation is based on a written paper and takes into account the students participation in the discussions that has place during the sessions.

Evaluation method

Assessment methods - Written Essay(100%)

Subject matter

The "Lyric”, the “Epic” and the “Tragic”: 1) Ancient Lyric as expression of the musicality in the human being. The contemporary readings of Pindar (Pythian and Olympian Odes) and Sappho by Nietzsche, Schadewaldt and Theunissen. 2) The Hölderlinian conception of the tragic, especially as a category applied to history, based on some essays by Hölderlin (“The Ground of Empedocles”, “Becoming in Passing Away”, “Notes on Oedipus Rex” and “Notes on Antigone”) and his translations of Sophocles (Oedipus Rex and Antigone).