Aesthetics
Course: Cultural Studies 2020
Structural unit: Faculty of Philosophy
Title
Aesthetics
Code
ОК 9
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
2. To analyze, comment and summarize scientific and analytical texts of culturological format.4. To
know and understand theoretical approaches to definition of culture, its manifestations and forms of
existence.6. To identify, verify and summarize information on various contexts of cultural practice,
to determine the degree of their relevance using different sources, information, communication tools
and visual technologies.7. To understand the factors of cultural dynamics, the principles of
periodization of cultural processes, their specific features and characteristics.8. To interpret cultural
sources (material, printed, visual, artistic) using special literature and certain methods, tо reasonably
present conclusions regarding their content.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1.Before studying this course, students must know the basic stages and characteristics of the
historical and cultural process; basic historical and philosophical theories, including methods of
philosophy of culture, theory and history of culture; basic philosophical concepts and categories ;
2. Students must be able to collect and interpret information on cultural phenomena and
phenomena, cultural processes and events; apply the basic terms, categories and classifications of
philosophical knowledge in the analysis of socio-cultural phenomena and processes; identify
current trends in art culture, predict the prospects for their development, taking into account the
peculiarities of cultural processes in the context of globalization;
3. Students must have basic skills in research and information management; critical attitude and
forecasting in relation to political, cultural and artistic events and phenomena; use of foreign
professional philosophical information sources.
Course content
Part 1. Aesthetic. Its essence and basic forms. Aesthetic consciousness and its structure. Nature and
development of aesthetic categories The process of artistic creativity. The structure of the creative
process. Aesthetic perception of a work of art Specificity of art Aesthetic culture and aesthetic
education. Part 2. Historical dynamics of aesthetic theory and artistic practice. Aesthetics of the
Ancient East. Symbolic art form. Ancient aesthetics. Classical art form. The ideal principle of the
spectacle. Mimesis as a basic concept of ancient aesthetics. General characteristics of the aesthetics
of the Middle Ages. Aesthetics of the Renaissance and the time of the "picture of the world".
Expression as a basic concept of modern aesthetics. General characteristics of the aesthetics of the
Enlightenment. Romantic art form. Aesthetic theory of Kant. Sign as a basic concept of aesthetic
theory of modernism. Aesthetic theories and practices of postmodernism.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Alun Munslow The Aesthetics of History. Routledge, 2020. – 204 р.
Lydia L Moland Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism. Oxford University Press, 2019. – 353 р.
Lopes, Dominic McIver. “Beyond the Pleasure Principle: A Kantian Aesthetics of Autonomy”.
Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 58, no. 1 (2021): 1–18.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, self-study
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Oral presentation, additions and participation in discussions at seminars: - 45/75 points
2. Self-study test in writing: - 15 /25 балів.
Final assessment in the form of an exam. Examination assessment is in writing. The ticket consists
of 2 questions, each of which is evaluated on a scale of 20 whites, which gives a total of 40 points
for the exam. A student is not allowed to take the exam if he / she scored less than 20 points during
the semester. To obtain an overall positive grade in the discipline, the grade for the exam can not be
less than 24 points.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
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Departments
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