Über Schönheit – Fluchtlinien einer ästhetischen Kategorie
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- Subject according curriculum
- General studies
- Teachers
- Dr. Benjamin Sprick
- Semester
- Sommersemester 2024
- Scope
- Mondays 10:00-11:30, start: 08.04.2024
- Room
- Multimediahörsaal (ELA 1)
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
The experience of beauty can be quite traumatic. It enables us to make contact with the infinite, which at the same time leads us into the depths of our (own) limitations. Accordingly, the question of ugliness is present in the aesthetic discourse on beauty. What is beautiful, what is ugly, is initially in the eyes of the beholder. At the same time, this categorization is quickly enriched with political-aesthetic meaning, which is also currently expressed in debates about body images and aesthetic power politics. The seminar reconstructs a current theory of beauty using various historical, current and absurd examples and makes it applicable to artistic practice. A final presentation is planned.
- Literature
Jean-Luc Nancy, "Schönheit", in: ders, Gott, Gerechtigkeit, Liebe, Schönheit, Vier Vorträge für Kinder, Berlin: wdpress 2020, pp. 135-154; Moshtari Hilal, Hässlichkeit, München: Hanser; Immanuel Kant, "Analytik des Schönen", in: ders, Kritik der Urteilskraft, Hamburg: Meiner 2020; Jule Govrin, Begehrenswert. Erotisches Kapital und Authentizität als Ware, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2023; Umberto Eco, Geschichte der Hässlichkeit, Munich: Hanser 2007, Karl Rosenkranz, Ästhetik des Häßlichen, Stuttgart: Reclam 2007; Andrea Kern, Schöne Lust. Eine Theorie der ästhetischen Erfahrung nach Kant, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2000; Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen. Ein Beitrag zur Revision einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst, Berlin: Holzinger 2017.
- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Comments
A comprehensive reader with texts on the topic will be made available at the beginning of the seminar. Philosophical-theoretical inputs by Prof. Frank Böhme are planned, and various guests will be invited to the individual sessions to discuss their respective positions on the topic.
- Modules
- Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge), Studium generale Wahlmodul Master