| Code |
16631
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| Year |
2
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Philosophy
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Entry requirements |
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Learning outcomes |
At the end of the course unit, the student should be able to:
a) Understand the constitution of aesthetic experience as an organization of the sensible, articulating art, form, and perception.
b) Critically analyse aesthetic judgment and the problem of the communicability of the sensible, recognizing the role of the spectator in aesthetic experience.
c) Problematize the relationship between art, truth, and life, identifying the philosophical implications of the tragic and of the critique of moralism.
d) Recognize the embodied dimension of aesthetic perception, articulating body, lived world, and artistic experience.
e) Assess the impact of technique and reproducibility on the transformation of aesthetic experience throughout history.
f) Analyse the political dimension of aesthetics, understanding the reorganization of the sensible and the emancipatory role of the spectator.
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Syllabus |
I
Art, Form, and the Organization of Action
• Poiesis, mimesis, and sensible knowledge
• Art as a philosophical problem and as a historical practice
• The organization of the sensible
II
The Formal Purposiveness of Aesthetics and the Communicability of the Sensible
• The reflective aesthetic judgment
• Universality without concept and purposiveness without purpose — the role of the spectator
III
Art, the Tragic, and the Affirmation of Life
• Critique of metaphysics and moralism
• Art as a response to nihilism
IV
Embodied Perception and Aesthetic Experience
• Body, the visible, and the lived world
• Art as experience
V
Art, Technique, and the Transformation of Experience
(Reproducibility, aura, and reception)
• Aesthetic experience and history
• Reproducibility
• From contemplation to distracted reception
VI
Aesthetics, Politics, and the Emancipation of the Spectator
• The reorganization of the sensible
• Active and creative interpretation
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Main Bibliography |
- Aristóteles. Poética: Imprensa Nacional — Casa da Moeda
- Baumgarten, Alexander. Esthétique ; précédée des Méditations philosophiques sur quelques sujets se rapportant à l'essence du poème et de la Métaphysique: L’Herne
- Kant, Immanuel. Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo: Imprensa Nacional — Casa da Moeda
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. O Nascimento da Tragédia: Relógio d’Água Editores
- Merleau- Ponty, Maurice. O Olho e o Espírito: Veja
-Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Fenomenologia da Perceção: Martins Fontes
- Benjamin, Walter. A Obra de Arte na Era da sua Reprodutibilidade Técnica: L&PM Editores
- Rancière, Jacques. O Espectador Emancipado: Orfeu Negro
Filmography
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
- Students who wish to be assessed on a continuous basis must attend as many classes as possible, with a minimum attendance rate of 70%.
- Non-Portuguese-speaking Erasmus students are assessed on the basis of two compulsory written assignments in English.
- Students are exempt from exams with a grade of 10 and are admitted to exams with a minimum grade of 6.
The use of AI will only be accepted in class exercises under the supervision of the teacher.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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