Faculty of Philosophy / PHILOSOPHY / HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF 20TH CENTURY
| Course: | HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF 20TH CENTURY/ |
| Course ID | Course status | Semester | ECTS credits | Lessons (Lessons+Exercises+Laboratory) |
| 4572 | Obavezan | 7 | 6 | 3+3+0 |
| Programs | PHILOSOPHY |
| Prerequisites | There are no requirements for application and attendance. |
| Aims | The course goal is to enable students to interpret, distinguish and critically understand the basic categories and thought processes of 20th-century philosophy. |
| Learning outcomes | After passing this examination, the student will be able: 1. To interpret the main currents of contemporary 20th-century philosophy. 2. To distinguish between the key problem complexes within phenomenological, existential, analytical, structuralist and Neo-Marxist philosophy. 3. To apply the hermeneutical method in textual interpretation. 4. Analyze the problem of freedom from the horizons of Sartre’s, Jaspers’ and Heidegger’s philosophy. 5. To write a critical and original paper in which they will expound on and judge the given philosophical problem. 6. To discuss the influence of contemporary philosophy on the understanding of science, art and religion. |
| Lecturer / Teaching assistant | Professor Dr Savo Laušević, Dr Srđan Maraš |
| Methodology | Lectures, analysis of original philosophical texts at diverse interpretive levels, discussions, seminar papers, colloquia, consultations. |
| Plan and program of work | |
| Preparing week | Preparation and registration of the semester |
| I week lectures | The key philosophical currents in 20th-century philosophy (introduction). |
| I week exercises | A conversation on the intellectual setting and on landmark events in the 20th century. |
| II week lectures | Phenomenological philosophy as an intellectual movement, its sources and causes. |
| II week exercises | A discussion on the relation of phenomenology to positivism and reduction of philosophy. |
| III week lectures | E. Husserl: the phenomenological method, ego cogito, phenomenological and eidetic reduction, intentionality of consciousness. |
| III week exercises | Analysis and interpretation of Husserl’s book Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy. |
| IV week lectures | The phenomenological concepts of transcendentalism, evidence and constitution, the question of Lebenswelt. |
| IV week exercises | Interpretation and discussion of select passages from Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. |
| V week lectures | K. Jaspers’ philosophy of existence, modalities of reality, existence and transcendence, the comprehensive, limit situations, the concept of the cipher. |
| V week exercises | Seminar papers on Jaspers’ philosophy, discussion and distinction between the key categories. |
| VI week lectures | M. Heidegger: fundamental ontology and hermeneutics of Dasein. |
| VI week exercises | |
| VII week lectures | Being and Time, questions and problems from the first phase of Heidegger's thinking. |
| VII week exercises | First colloquium. |
| VIII week lectures | Hermeneutic philosophy (Gadamer, Betti, Ricoeur). |
| VIII week exercises | A discussion on the difference between ontologically and epistemologically oriented hermeneutics. |
| IX week lectures | Heidegger’s philosophy after the "Turn": the problem of humanism, the matter of technique, the problem of language. |
| IX week exercises | A conversation on the problem of language in Heidegger. |
| X week lectures | J.P. Sartre’s existentialism: Being and Nothingness, being-in-itself, being-for-itself, the problem of freedom, relation to the other. |
| X week exercises | |
| XI week lectures | Philosophy in the structuralist key (M. Foucault, J. Derrida, J. Lacan). |
| XI week exercises | Presentation of seminar papers on structuralist philosophy. |
| XII week lectures | Analytical philosophy, logical positivism, B. Russell, Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, the Berlin Circle, the Lvov-Warsaw School. |
| XII week exercises | Interpretation of L. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, discussion on the essential postulates. |
| XIII week lectures | Neo-Marxism, critical theory of society (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas and others). |
| XIII week exercises | Definition and discussion on the basic problems in critical theory. |
| XIV week lectures | The problem of deconstruction and J. Derrida’s philosophy. |
| XIV week exercises | A conversation on deconstruction. |
| XV week lectures | Postmodern philosophical thought (Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida). |
| XV week exercises | Second colloquium. |
| Student workload | Workload structure: 123 hours (instruction) + 13 hours and 20 minutes (preparation) + 30 hours (remedial work). |
| Per week | Per semester |
| 6 credits x 40/30=8 hours and 0 minuts
3 sat(a) theoretical classes 0 sat(a) practical classes 3 excercises 2 hour(s) i 0 minuts of independent work, including consultations |
Classes and final exam:
8 hour(s) i 0 minuts x 16 =128 hour(s) i 0 minuts Necessary preparation before the beginning of the semester (administration, registration, certification): 8 hour(s) i 0 minuts x 2 =16 hour(s) i 0 minuts Total workload for the subject: 6 x 30=180 hour(s) Additional work for exam preparation in the preparing exam period, including taking the remedial exam from 0 to 30 hours (remaining time from the first two items to the total load for the item) 36 hour(s) i 0 minuts Workload structure: 128 hour(s) i 0 minuts (cources), 16 hour(s) i 0 minuts (preparation), 36 hour(s) i 0 minuts (additional work) |
| Student obligations | Attendance at lectures and exercises, participation in discussions, writing seminar papers, taking the colloquia and the examination. |
| Consultations | After the lectures. |
| Literature | Surveys: V. Štegmiler, Glavne struje savremene filosofije, Nolit, Beograd, 1962. M. Životić, Egzistencija, realnost, sloboda, Velika edicija ideja, Beograd, 1973. G. Petrović, Suvremena Filosfija, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1981 (first and second parts |
| Examination methods | - first colloquium, up to 20 points - second colloquium, up to 20 points - attendance and in-class activity, 10 points - final examination, up to 50 points - The pass grade is achieved after cumulatively earning at least 51 points. |
| Special remarks | For more extensive reading, the student is free to consult the Professor. |
| Comment |
| Grade: | F | E | D | C | B | A |
| Number of points | less than 50 points | greater than or equal to 50 points and less than 60 points | greater than or equal to 60 points and less than 70 points | greater than or equal to 70 points and less than 80 points | greater than or equal to 80 points and less than 90 points | greater than or equal to 90 points |
Faculty of Philosophy / PHILOSOPHY / MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS
| Course: | MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS/ |
| Course ID | Course status | Semester | ECTS credits | Lessons (Lessons+Exercises+Laboratory) |
| 4574 | Obavezan | 7 | 6 | 4+2+0 |
| Programs | PHILOSOPHY |
| Prerequisites | There are no requirements for application and lecture attendance. |
| Aims | The course goal is to enable students to analyze, distinguish, comprehend and critically judge the phenomena, problems, concepts and theories of modern and contemporary aesthetics. |
| Learning outcomes | After passing this examination, the student will be able: 1. To interpret the main starting points and sources of modern aesthetics based on the concept of creative subject. 2. To analyze the fundamental aesthetical problems of classical German aesthetics (judgement, natural beauty, artistic beauty, artistic truth…). 3. To distinguish between the aesthetical concepts of taste, fancy and genius. 4. To critically discuss the key aesthetic theories of the 20th century (integral, phenomenological, hermeneutical, structuralist, semiotic, communicative aesthetics). 5. To apply particular contemporary aesthetical approaches to analytical consideration of actual artistic works from the domains of literature, music and painting. 6. To write an essay or seminar paper on a contemporary aesthetical problem in which they will demonstrate its structural composition and pass their judgement. |
| Lecturer / Teaching assistant | Professor Dr Savo Laušević, Dr Srđan Maraš |
| Methodology | Lectures, interpretation of original texts, discussions, seminar papers, colloquia, consultations and the examination. |
| Plan and program of work | |
| Preparing week | Preparation and registration of the semester |
| I week lectures | The foundation of the concepts modernity and conteporaneity. Aesthetical problems of the Renaissance. |
| I week exercises | A conversation on the problem of the subject as the basis of modern thinking. |
| II week lectures | The 17th and 18th centuries in aesthetics: rationalism and empiricism, the British aesthetical school, the concepts of sensation and taste. |
| II week exercises | A discussion on the problem of the internal (aesthetical) sense in Hume, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. |
| III week lectures | A. Baumgarten: the introduction of the name aesthetics. Classical German aesthetics. |
| III week exercises | Introduction to the conversation: a seminar paper on Baumgarten’s conception of aesthetics. A follow-up discussion. |
| IV week lectures | Kant: judgement, fancy, taste, the beautiful, the sublime, genius, talent. |
| IV week exercises | A discussion on the interpretation of Kant’s Introduction to The Critique of Judgement. |
| V week lectures | Schelling’s philosophy of art as an organon of philosophy; mythology, art, philosophy. |
| V week exercises | A conversation on Schelling’s theoretical postulate: art is an organon of philosophy. |
| VI week lectures | Hegel’s aesthetics: art in the system of the absolute spirit; spirit in the sensuous form, artistic and natural beauty, artistic illusion, art and truth, the end of art; forms of artistic beauty, the system of arts. |
| VI week exercises | Introduction: student presentations on the key problems of Hegel’s aesthetics, a follow-up discussion. |
| VII week lectures | Aesthetical currents in the 19th century: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, psychologism in aesthetics (Fechner). |
| VII week exercises | First colloquium. |
| VIII week lectures | Evolutionism, biologism and naturalism in aesthetics; aesthetics as a general science of art (M. Dessoir). |
| VIII week exercises | A critical discussion: on the influence of positive science on the understanding of art. |
| IX week lectures | Contemporary culture: artistic patterns and aesthetical paradigms in the 20th century; influences of science on aesthetics; integral aesthetics (Ch. Lalo); a science of forms (E. Souriau); scientific aesthetics (Th. Munro). |
| IX week exercises | Can there be any discussion on the aesthetic paradigms in 20th-century art? A conversation. |
| X week lectures | Benedetto Croce: essentials of aesthetics, his relation to Hegel, degrees in truth-seeking. The aesthetics of expression, comprehension of intuition in art. The relation of aesthetics and linguistics. |
| X week exercises | A seminar paper on the relation of aesthetics and linguistics, a follow-up discussion. |
| XI week lectures | Phenomenological-ontological aesthetics (Hartmann, Ingarden, Dufrenne): the basic principles and problems; Hartmann’s aesthetics: the structure of the aesthetic act and aesthetic object, levels and layers in the arts. |
| XI week exercises | Analysis and interpretation of Hartmann’s theory of the aesthetical object and aesthetic act, exposition and conversation. |
| XII week lectures | R. Ingarden: the aesthetic experience, work of art, aesthetic values. |
| XII week exercises | Analytical interpretation and discussion of Ingarden’s book Experience, Artwork and Value. Foundation of aesthetical values. |
| XIII week lectures | Structuralism in aesthetics: semiotical, symbolical and semantical definitions of aesthetics. |
| XIII week exercises | A discussion on the application of the structuralist method to the comprehension of art. |
| XIV week lectures | Signs and meanings in art. Art as language (Ch. Morris, S. Langer, J. Mukařovský, A. Moles, U. Eco). The French New Criticism (G. Poulet, J. Starobinski, R. Barthes, S. Doubrovsky). |
| XIV week exercises | A discussion on the comprehension of art through the paradigm of language. |
| XV week lectures | Aesthetics of information, communication and the media (A. Moles, M. Bense, J. Caune, U. Eco). Postmodern art and theory of art (Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida, Vattimo and others). |
| XV week exercises | Second colloquium. |
| Student workload | Workload structure: 128 hours (instruction) + 16 hours (preparation) + 36 hours (remedial work) = 180 hours total. |
| Per week | Per semester |
| 6 credits x 40/30=8 hours and 0 minuts
4 sat(a) theoretical classes 0 sat(a) practical classes 2 excercises 2 hour(s) i 0 minuts of independent work, including consultations |
Classes and final exam:
8 hour(s) i 0 minuts x 16 =128 hour(s) i 0 minuts Necessary preparation before the beginning of the semester (administration, registration, certification): 8 hour(s) i 0 minuts x 2 =16 hour(s) i 0 minuts Total workload for the subject: 6 x 30=180 hour(s) Additional work for exam preparation in the preparing exam period, including taking the remedial exam from 0 to 30 hours (remaining time from the first two items to the total load for the item) 36 hour(s) i 0 minuts Workload structure: 128 hour(s) i 0 minuts (cources), 16 hour(s) i 0 minuts (preparation), 36 hour(s) i 0 minuts (additional work) |
| Student obligations | Attendance at lectures and exercises, participation in discussions, writing seminar papers, colloquia and the final examination. |
| Consultations | After the lectures. |
| Literature | Reference books: K. E. Gilbert, H. Kun, Istorija estetike, Beograd, Sarajevo, 1969 (especially pp. 139 - 483). M. Damjanović, Strujanja u savremenoj estetici, Naprijed, Zagreb, 1966. G. M. Taljabue, Savremena estetika, Nolit, Beograd, 1983... M. Per |
| Examination methods | - first colloquium 20 points - second colloquium 20 points - attendance and in-class activity 10 points - The pass grade is achieved after cumulatively earning at least 52 points. |
| Special remarks | For more extensive reading the student is free to consult the Professor. |
| Comment |
| Grade: | F | E | D | C | B | A |
| Number of points | less than 50 points | greater than or equal to 50 points and less than 60 points | greater than or equal to 60 points and less than 70 points | greater than or equal to 70 points and less than 80 points | greater than or equal to 80 points and less than 90 points | greater than or equal to 90 points |
Faculty of Philosophy / PHILOSOPHY / GREAT CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS (ELECTIVE COURSE)
| Course: | GREAT CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS (ELECTIVE COURSE)/ |
| Course ID | Course status | Semester | ECTS credits | Lessons (Lessons+Exercises+Laboratory) |
| 4578 | Obavezan | 8 | 6 | 3+0+0 |
| Programs | PHILOSOPHY |
| Prerequisites | There are no requirements for application and lecture attendance. |
| Aims | The course goal is to enable students to interpret and appraise the fundamental problems and influences of at least two select contemporary philosophers. |
| Learning outcomes | After passing this examination, the student will be able: 1. To interpret the meaning of the phrases "great philosophers" and "contemporary philosophy." 2. To discuss the select philosophical questions raised by the contemporary philosophers. 3. To use the knowledge of contemporary philosophy to critically consider the problems of our time. 4. To compare contemporary philosophers and their mutual influences. 5. To write seminar papers in philosophy in order to become more capable of expertly interpreting and critically appraising the philosophical work while completing the final thesis. |
| Lecturer / Teaching assistant | Professor Dr Savo Laušević |
| Methodology | Lectures, analysis of original philosophical texts at diverse interpretive levels, discussions, seminar papers, colloquia, consultations. |
| Plan and program of work | |
| Preparing week | Preparation and registration of the semester |
| I week lectures | H.G. Gadamer and philosophical hermeneutics, the event of truth: Truth and Method, the structure of comprehension. |
| I week exercises | |
| II week lectures | The development of the hermeneutical problem from Schleiermacher, Dilthey to Heidegger and Gadamer. |
| II week exercises | |
| III week lectures | Phenomenology and hermeneutics, the fundamentals of hermeneutical experience, the hermeneutical circle, the problem of prejudice. |
| III week exercises | |
| IV week lectures | The hermeneutical problem of application, active history, the foundation of the sciences of the spirit. |
| IV week exercises | |
| V week lectures | Hermeneutics and ontology, hermeneutics and practical philosophy (ethical and political implications). |
| V week exercises | |
| VI week lectures | Hermeneutical interpretation of the text. |
| VI week exercises | |
| VII week lectures | First colloquium. |
| VII week exercises | |
| VIII week lectures | Language as the interpretive horizon, text interpretation, horizon of dialogue, limits of speech. Understanding poetry. |
| VIII week exercises | |
| IX week lectures | |
| IX week exercises | |
| X week lectures | The essential sources of Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy (phenomenology, Judaism, Russian classics, F. Rosenzweig). |
| X week exercises | |
| XI week lectures | Levinas’ critique of Western philosophy as ontology, the problem of the Other, ethics as first philosophy. |
| XI week exercises | |
| XII week lectures | The totality and the infinite, the separation with the totality. |
| XII week exercises | |
| XIII week lectures | Face-to-face, responsibility for the Other, being hostage of the Other, good beyond being, ethics and ontology, otherwise than being or beyond essence. |
| XIII week exercises | |
| XIV week lectures | Justice and politics; eschatology of peace; constitution of subjectivity: the I-sub-iectum hypostasis. |
| XIV week exercises | |
| XV week lectures | Second colloquium. |
| XV week exercises |
| Student workload | Workload structure: 111 hours (instruction) + 13 hours 20 minutes (preparation) + 30 hours (remedial work). |
| Per week | Per semester |
| 6 credits x 40/30=8 hours and 0 minuts
3 sat(a) theoretical classes 0 sat(a) practical classes 0 excercises 5 hour(s) i 0 minuts of independent work, including consultations |
Classes and final exam:
8 hour(s) i 0 minuts x 16 =128 hour(s) i 0 minuts Necessary preparation before the beginning of the semester (administration, registration, certification): 8 hour(s) i 0 minuts x 2 =16 hour(s) i 0 minuts Total workload for the subject: 6 x 30=180 hour(s) Additional work for exam preparation in the preparing exam period, including taking the remedial exam from 0 to 30 hours (remaining time from the first two items to the total load for the item) 36 hour(s) i 0 minuts Workload structure: 128 hour(s) i 0 minuts (cources), 16 hour(s) i 0 minuts (preparation), 36 hour(s) i 0 minuts (additional work) |
| Student obligations | Attendance at lectures, participation in discussions, writing seminar papers, colloquia and the final examination. |
| Consultations | After the lectures. |
| Literature | Readings: (minimum of 3 select works) H. G. Gadamer: Istina i metoda, (Parts 2 and 3, pp. 203-528), V. Masleša, Sarajevo, 1978. H. G. Gadamer, Klasična i filozofska hermeneutika, journal »Teorija« br. 4/ 1997. Beograd. Ž. Gronden, Uvod u filozofsku he |
| Examination methods | - first colloquium, 20 points - second colloquium, 20 points - in-class activity, 10 points - The pass grade is achieved after cumulatively earning at least 51 points. |
| Special remarks | For more extensive reading, the student is free to consult the Professor. |
| Comment |
| Grade: | F | E | D | C | B | A |
| Number of points | less than 50 points | greater than or equal to 50 points and less than 60 points | greater than or equal to 60 points and less than 70 points | greater than or equal to 70 points and less than 80 points | greater than or equal to 80 points and less than 90 points | greater than or equal to 90 points |
