Uncommon Aesthetic Phenomena 3800-UEP24-S
The aim of the seminar is to explore areas of everyday life that are not usually considered aesthetic phenomena in philosophical aesthetics. By redefining the concept of „the aesthetic", areas such as everyday life, popular culture, landscape, food and eroticism will be examined.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
Students know and understand advanced methods of philosophical analysis
Students have in-depth research skills, including analyzing the work of other students and synthesizing various ideas and views.
Students have the ability to formulate critical opinions about cultural products based on scientific knowledge and experience.
Kryteria oceniania
Essay (4,000) words
Number of absences: 2
Literatura
Please note, that the final list of readings is subject to change and negotiation according to students’ research interests)
Carroll N., The Philosophy of Mass Art, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Saito Y., Everyday Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Mittell J. Complex TV, New York University Press, 2015.
Shusterman R. „Form and Funk. The Aesthetic Challange of Popular Art”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 3 (31) 1991, pp. 213-230.
Gracyk T., „Searching for the Popular and the Art in Popular Art”, Philosophy Compass 2 (2) 2007, pp.380-295.
Irvin Sh., „The Pervasiveness of the Aesthetic in Ordinary Experience”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 1 (48) 2008, pp. 29–44.
Naukkarinen O., ”Variations in Artification”, Contemporary Aesthetics, Special Issue: Artification, vol. 4;
Gerson M-J., „The World of Mad Men: Power, Surface, and Passion”, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 71 (2011), pp. 370–375;
Butler, J. G., “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Historicizing Visual Style in Mad Men” [in:] Mad Men: Dream Come True TV, Edited by Gary R. Edgerton, London 2011, pp. 55–71.
Donnelly A. M., “The New American Hero: Dexter, Serial Killer for the Masses”, The Journal of Popular Culture (1) 45 (2012), pp. 15–26;
Force W. R., “The Code of Harry: Performing Normativity in Dexter”, Crime, Media, Culture, (3) 6 2011, ss. 329–345.
Jameson F., “Realism and Utopia in the Wire”, Criticism 3–4 (52) 2010, pp. 359–372;
Bramall R., Pitcher B., “Policing the crisis, or, why we love The Wire”, International Journal of Culture Studies, (1) 16 2013, pp. 85–98.
Sibley F., “Tastes, Smells, and Aesthetics” [in:] ibidem, Approach to Aesthetics, Oxford University Press 2001;
Brady E., “Smells, Tastes and Everyday Aesthetics” [in:] Philosophy and Food, Ed. David Kaplan. Berkeley: California University Press, 2012.
Fokt S., “Pornographic Art – A Case from Definitions”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 3 (52) 2012, pp. 278–300;
Neill A., “The Pornographic, the Erotic, the Charming, and the Sublime” [in:] Art and Pornography. Philosophical Essays, Ed. Maes H., Levinson J., Oxford University Press 2012.
Parsons G., A. Carlson, “Functional Beauty in Contemporary Aesthetic Theory” [in:] Functional Beauty, Oxford University Press 2008;
Sauchelli A., “Functional Beauty, Perception, and Aesthetic Judgments” British Journal of Aesthetics (1) 53 2012, pp. 41–53.
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