Estetika ir politinė kritika

Dalyko anotacija užsienio kalba

The course engages the intersections of aesthetics and politics, in particular the concept and experience of aesthetic ideology, governmental and party use of aesthetic strategies, identity politics (race, gender, class, nationalism), and issues surrounding the question of „committed art.“ The common ground which sponsors the intersection between aesthetics and politics is power, and as such the course will keep in mind that the interferential points between the two sides of this comparative study are not material, localizable points but actions, power relations, actions on actions.

Dalyko studijų rezultatai

Students learn the basic contours of the history of (Western) modern aesthetics, from its roots in the 18th century to the present. Students explore and critically analyze texts of political theory that use or reflect aesthetic themes and practices. Students learn to interpret artworks (of varying media) in light of their political content and political utility.

Dalyko turinys

The Politics of Beauty; The Politics of Ugliness; Aesthetic Education; Sensus communis as a community foundation (Kant); the End of Art (Hegel). Politics, Art, and Nature (Schelling); Tragedy (inter alia: Nietzsche); Heidegger and the Artwork; Sartre and Engagement; Jacques Ranciere and the politics of aesthetics. Aesthetic Ideology; Fascist and Totalitarian Aesthetics (e.g. Leni Riefenstahl); theories of nationalism. Roland Barthes‘s theory of myth; Aesthetic Responses to Fascism and Totalitarianism; Committed Art; East/Central European Literature: e.g. Milosz, Kundera, Kafka; Art as Cultural and Political Criticism.

Dalyko studijos valandomis

Paskaitos – 30 val., seminarai – 15 val., konsultacijos interaktyviuoju būdu – 15 val., studento savarankiškas darbas: šaltinių skaitymas ir analizavimas – 100 val.

Studijų rezultatų vertinimas

Kolokviumas – 20%; seminaras – 30%; egzaminas – 50%.

Literatūra

1. 1997. Adorno, Theodor. Aesthetic Theory University of Minnesota Press
2. 1980 Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht, and Lukacs. Aesthetics and Politics Verso
3. 1972 Barthes, Roland. Mythologies Hill and Wang
4. 1988 Sartre, Jean-Paul. „What is Literature?“ and Other Essays. Harvard University Press.
5. 1983 Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities, Verso
6. 1996 De Man, Paul. Aesthetic Ideology University of Minnesota Press
7. 1981 Jameson, Frederic. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, Cornell University Press
8. 1997 Foucault, Michel. Power: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 The New Press
9. 1990 Eagleton, Terry. The Ideology of the Aesthetic Blackwell
10. 1990 Milosz, Czeslaw. The Captive Mind Vintage Books
11. 2006 Franklin, Daniel. Politics and Film Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.
12. 2004 Kundera, Milan. The Art of the Novel Harper Perennial Modern Classics
13. 2000 The Continental Aesthetics Reader, Ed. Clive Cazeaux Routledge