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).
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