Art and Politics - ASV00013

• Anglický název: Art and Politics
• Zajišťuje: Katedra estetiky (21-KEST)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2019
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:kombinovaná
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Mgr. Sabrina Muchová, Ph.D.

Anotace

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This course will be dedicated to the question of the relationship between art, aesthetics and politics. It will offer a general overview of the topic from the Early Romanticism to contemporary discussions. We will deal with terms such as ideology, autonomy of art, freedom and judgement. The main question which we will follow during the lessons is, whether art can have any political impact, and if so, what kind of impact it is and how does art achieve it. Art can be seen as a unique means of social change or social critique, but also as an ideological and dangerous medium of influence and enforcement of the status quo. The course will first introduce the idea of the political role of art in the thoughts of the authors of Romantic era (Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Schelling). Then we will focus on Critical Theory, mainly on its most prominent authors (Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Walter Benjamin) but also recent German philosophers elaborating on the tradition (Albrecht Wellmer, Christoph Menke, Juliane Rebentisch, Axel Honneth). The third part of the course will be dedicated to the problem of judgement (Hannah Arendt) and the aesthetic democracy (Jacques Rancière, Boris Groys).

Poslední úprava: Muchová Sabrina, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.03.2019)

Literatura

Recommended reading:

Theodor W. Adorno: 'Commitment,' in New Left Review, no. 87-88 (November – December 1974).

Terry Eagleton: The Ideology of the Aesthetic. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

Murray Edelman: From Art to Politics. How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995.

Boris Groys: Art Power. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

Frederic Jameson (ed.): Aesthetics and Politics. London: Verso, 1992.

Herbert Marcuse: The Aesthetic Dimension. Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978.

Jacques Rancière: The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Transl. G. Rockhill. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

                            - The Emancipated Spectator. Transl. G. Elliot. London: Verso, 2011.

 

Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=7147

 

 

 

 

Poslední úprava: Muchová Sabrina, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.03.2019)

Požadavky ke zkoušce

The written exam will consist of five questions concerning the topics from the lectures.

Poslední úprava: Kubalík Štěpán, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.12.2018)

Sylabus

1.      Introduction – Art, Aesthetics and Politics

2.      Early Romantics I. – Schiller and the Aesthetic Education of Men

3.      Early Romantics II. – The Aesthetic Revolution

4.      Ideology and Utopia 

5.      Critical Theory I. – Culture as a Problem 

6.      Critical Theory II. – Art as the Redemption of Society

7.      Critical Theory III. – Art and Freedom

8.      Aesthetic and Political Judgement

9.      Distribution of the Sensible – On Jacques Rancière

10.    Aesthetic Democracy

11.    Conclusion – The Political Role of Art

12.    Exam

Poslední úprava: Muchová Sabrina, Mgr., Ph.D. (09.02.2019)