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Bachelor of European Studies (BAES). Grado conjunto otorgado por UCM, KUL, UNIBO y JU (Alianza Una Europa)

Undergraduate Programme. Academic Year 2024/2025.

EUROPEAN AESTHETICS PERSPECTIVES - 806595

Curso Académico 2024-25

Datos Generales

SINOPSIS

COMPETENCIAS

ACTIVIDADES DOCENTES

Presenciales

6

Semestre

2

Objetivos


CO1. Be able to identify an aesthetic experience and what rightfully belongs to it.


CO2. Understand the main contemporary approaches to aesthetic and artistic value in relation to their sources in European thought.


CO3. Be able to defend a personal and original position in the contemporary debate about the relationships between aesthetics and ethics with the aid of the tools supplied by European thought.


CO4. Be able to defend a personal and original position in the contemporary debate about the relationships between aesthetics and knowledge with the aid of the tools supplied by European thought.


CO5. Understand the challenges for aesthetics and the arts posed by the subjective turn of modernity in European thought and identify potential solutions to it.


CO6. Understand and critically approach the relationships between art and beauty in connection with the European historical evolution of art.

 

Contenido

 

Introduction

 

Theme 1: What is an aesthetic experience?

Introductory definitions of aesthetic experience, property and judgment.

 

Question I: What rightfully belongs to an aesthetic experience?

 

Theme 2: Aesthetic experience and morality.

Is the moral part of the aesthetic? Is an artwork (aesthetically) better if it is morally better?

                  Seminar 1: Plato’s Republic.

 

Theme 3: Aesthetic experience and knowledge.

Is knowledge part of the aesthetic? Is an artwork (aesthetically) better if we can learn something from it?

            Seminar 2: Aristotle’s Poetics.

 

Question II: Are aesthetic judgments liable to be right or wrong?

 

Theme 4: The subjective turn of modernity about aesthetic judgment.

Is aesthetic judgment purely subjective? Are there any conditions to correctly make an aesthetic judgment?

            Seminar 3: Hume’s On the Standard of Taste.

 

Theme 5: Aesthetic judgment and the cognitive faculties.

Is aesthetic judgment the expression of a merely pleasurable experience? Is aesthetic judgment the subsumption of an experience under a concept? What is the difference between the beautiful and the sublime? Is there any difference between natural and artistic beauty?

            Seminar 4: Kant’s Critique of Judgment.

 

Theme 6: The normativity of aesthetic judgment.

Can an aesthetic judgment be intersubjectively accepted? Is there any relation between aesthetic judgments and rules?

Seminar 5: Wittgenstein’s Lectures on Aesthetics I, §11–§15; II, §19, §20, §33–§40; III, §1–§4.

 

Question III: Is there any substantive relation between art and aesthetics?

 

Theme 7: The divorce between contemporary art and aesthetics

Is beauty an essential property of art? Can art dispense with any aesthetic property? Is art perceptually distinguishable from non-art?

       Seminar 6: Goodman’s When is art?

Evaluación

If the number of participants is 20 or less people, participants will be offered two options and must opt for only one of them:
OPTION A: Continuous assessment. Participants will be evaluated according to the development of five written individual tasks. Each task will consist of questions and problems that will be posed to deepen on the understanding of the issues approached in the theoretical lessons and seminars, and will measure the skills of the participant in this respect. The tasks will be done at home by each participant and submitted by the deadline given for each one the tasks. The average of the score of the 5 tasks will be the 100% of the final score obtained in the course.
OPTION B: Final exam in which will consist of a text analysis among the ones approached in the seminars and a series of questions about the theoretical lessons. The exam will be done in person, at the room and date settled by the Faculty of Philosophy of UCM. The score obtained in the exam will be the 100% of the final score obtained in the course.
If the number of participants is more than 20 people, participants must do two things:
(1) Submit two written individual tasks by the deadline assigned to them. Participants must choose up to 2 of the 5 tasks that will be proposed during the course. Each task will consist of questions and problems that will be posed to deepen on the understanding of the issues approached in the theoretical lessons and seminars, and will measure the skills of the participant in this respect. The average of the score of the 2 tasks will be the 50% of the final score obtained in the course.
(2) Do a final exam that will consist of a text analysis among the ones approached in the seminars and a series of questions about the theoretical lessons. The exam will be done in person, at the room and date settled by the Faculty of Philosophy of UCM. The score obtained in the exam will be the 50% of the final score obtained in the course.

Bibliografía

Aristotle. Poetics. In Cahn & Meskin, chapter 6.
Kant, I. 2007. Critique of Judgment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goodman, N. 1978. Ways of Worldmaking. Hackett Publishing. In Cahn & Meskin, chapter 38.
Hume, D. On the Standard of Taste. In Cahn & Meskin, chapter 12.
Plato. Republic. In Cahn & Meskin, chapter 3.
Wittgenstein, L. 1967. Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, ed. Cyril Barrett. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

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