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Aesthetic Experience: The 20th Century Conceptual Overview The course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the history and present of one of the central concepts of 20th-century aesthetics. Attention will first be directed to the main conceptions of aesthetic experience in the first half of the twentieth century, both within continental thought (phenomenology, structuralism, hermeneutics, critical sociology of the Frankfurt School) and in the United States (pragmatism and analytical Anglo-American philosophy, New Criticism). In the second part of the lecture and parallel seminars, the fate of these concepts will be followed in the second half of the twentieth century, when the idea of aesthetic experience faces massive and multifaceted criticism. Main topics:
1. A brief genealogy of the concept of aesthetic experience.
2. Possibilities of the definition of aesthetic experience - the minimal aesthetic concept.
3. The concept of aesthetic experience at the beginning of the twentieth century (aesthetic attitude – aesthetic experience – aesthetic perception).
4. Phenomenology – Roman Ingarden's concept of aesthetic experience.
5. Phenomenology – Mikel Dufrenne's concept of aesthetic experience.
6. Hans-Georg Gadamer and criticism of the Kantian concept.
7. Paul Ricoeur and his concept of aesthetic experience.
8. The concept of the aesthetic experience of the Kostnica school of reception aesthetics. 9–10 John Dewey - Art as experience.
11. Continuators of John Dewey - M. C. Beardsley, J. Stolnitz, A. Berleant, R. Shusterman.
12. Criticism of the concept of aesthetic experience by analytical aestheticians in the mid-20th century. Century.
13. Criticism of the concept of aesthetic experience from poststructuralism and deconstruction, feminist philosophy, and visual studies.