GENERAL COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: THEORIES OF BEAUTY. AN INTRODUCTION
| Title | ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΓΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ:ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΗ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ "ΚΑΛΛΟΥΣ" / GENERAL COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: THEORIES OF BEAUTY. AN INTRODUCTION |
| Code | ΔΠΜΣ_ΛΟΓ004 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | German Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Inactive |
| Course ID | 600013620 |
| Academic Year | 2017 – 2018 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Class ID | 600071152
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Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600071152
- At the Website of the School:
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Learning Outcomes
The following learning outcomes are intended:
• to enhance knowledge of art history and art theory
• to read analyse, and discuss theoretical texts
• to compare artworks and theories of art
• to deepen the reception of art
• to improve methodological precision
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
"Beauty" is a basic category for European art. The course gives an introduction to the concept of "beauty" and its history from antiquity to modernity. Relevant passages from classical texts will be discussed: The Metamorphoses of Ovid and the Phaedrus Plato, the treatises of Schiller (On Naive and Sentimental Poetry, 1795), Darwin (The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871) and Freud (Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930). These different theoretical approaches will provide the framework for the analysis of examples from European literature and art. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become familiar with the terminology of the philosophical aesthetics and the concept "beauty" of in European culture.
Keywords
aesthetic theory, history of art, philosophical aesthetic
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 78 | ✓ | |||
| Reading Assigment | 22 | ||||
| Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities | 30 | ||||
| Project | 50 | ||||
| Written assigments | 70 | ||||
| Total | 250 |
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
- Performance / Staging (Formative)
- Written Exam with Problem Solving (Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Beardsley, M.C.: Ιστορία των Αισθητικών Θεωριών, Μτφρ. Δημοσθένης Κούρτοβικ, Παύλος Χριστοδουλίδης, Αθήνα: Νεφέλη, 1989.
Davies, Stephen κ.α. (Επιμ.): A Companion to Aesthetics, London: Routledge, 2009.
Έκο,Ουμπέρτο: Ιστορία της ομορφιάς, Μετάφραση: Δότση, Ρομποτής, Αθήνα 2004.Nehamas, Alexander: Only a promise of happiness: the place of beauty in a world of art. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, 2007.
Gaut, (Επιμ.):The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (Routledge Philosophy Companions), London : Routledge, 2000.
Scruton, Roger: Beauty. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009
Last Update
21-03-2017
