Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Critique, in the most general sense, is a mode of investigation meant to challenge ideas and
discover how they stand up to scrutiny. In a narrower sense, the ‘critical tradition’ is a specific
modality that descends to us formally from the 18th century, beginning with figures in the
Enlightenment, most notably Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), continuing through to modern and
post-modern thought exemplified in movements like Critical Theory, semiotics, and literary
theory. In this course, we will survey this tradition with a specific focus on ethics and aesthetics.
What is the role of art, and what can it disclose to us about the human condition, society, and our
ethical commitments? How does society structure our moral and aesthetic sensibilities? How are
value systems related to faculties like reason and sentiment? What normative implications follow
from our understanding thereof?
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Critique, in the most general sense, is a mode of investigation meant to challenge ideas and
discover how they stand up to scrutiny. In a narrower sense, the ‘critical tradition’ is a specific
modality that descends to us formally from the 18th century, beginning with figures in the
Enlightenment, most notably Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), continuing through to modern and
post-modern thought exemplified in movements like Critical Theory, semiotics, and literary
theory. In this course, we will survey this tradition with a specific focus on ethics and aesthetics.
What is the role of art, and what can it disclose to us about the human condition, society, and our
ethical commitments? How does society structure our moral and aesthetic sensibilities? How are
value systems related to faculties like reason and sentiment? What normative implications follow
from our understanding thereof?
Cíl předmětu -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
· Identify and track movements within the critical tradition in western thought.
· Explicate and critically analyze themes regarding ethics, aesthetics and society.
· Synthesize and contextualize myriad and sometimes [seemingly] disparate ideas.
· Understand how to deconstruct and formulate philosophical arguments.
· Conduct sound academic research.
· Reflect upon the deeper meaning of texts and how they relate to subjects beyond
circumscribed fields.
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
· Identify and track movements within the critical tradition in western thought.
· Explicate and critically analyze themes regarding ethics, aesthetics and society.
· Synthesize and contextualize myriad and sometimes [seemingly] disparate ideas.
· Understand how to deconstruct and formulate philosophical arguments.
· Conduct sound academic research.
· Reflect upon the deeper meaning of texts and how they relate to subjects beyond
circumscribed fields.
Metody výuky -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The course is taught by Shawn Christopher Vigil and Brice Cantrell under the supervision of Dr. Aleš Novák.
Contact:
2quillswriting@gmail.com
bdcantre45@gmail.com
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The course is taught by Shawn Christopher Vigil and Brice Cantrell under the supervision of Dr. Aleš Novák.
Contact:
2quillswriting@gmail.com
bdcantre45@gmail.com
Sylabus -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Week I: General Introduction, Discussion on art, ethics, and society.
Week II: Kant, “First Section: Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment,” in Critique of Judgment, pp. 35
74.
Week III: Nietzsche, “The Birth of Tragedy,” in The Nietzsche Reader, pp. 42 - 73.
Week IV: Marx, “Estranged Labor,” in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 28 -
35.
Week V: Horkheimer & Adorno, “The Concept of Enlightenment,” in Dialectic of
Enlightenment, pp. 1 - 34.
Week VI: Horkheimer & Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in
Dialectic of Enlightenment, pp. 94 - 136.
Week VII: Horkeheimer, “Materialism and Metaphysics,” in Critical Theory, pp. 10 - 46.
Week VIII: Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason, pp. 3 - 39.
Week IX: Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, pp. 217 - 251.