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Faculty of Philosophy / PHILOSOPHY / HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF 20TH CENTURY

Course:HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF 20TH CENTURY/
Course IDCourse statusSemesterECTS creditsLessons (Lessons+Exercises+Laboratory)
4572Obavezan763+3+0
ProgramsPHILOSOPHY
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 assistantProfessor Dr Savo Laušević, Dr Srđan Maraš
MethodologyLectures, analysis of original philosophical texts at diverse interpretive levels, discussions, seminar papers, colloquia, consultations.
Plan and program of work
Preparing weekPreparation and registration of the semester
I week lecturesThe key philosophical currents in 20th-century philosophy (introduction).
I week exercisesA conversation on the intellectual setting and on landmark events in the 20th century.
II week lecturesPhenomenological 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 lecturesE. Husserl: the phenomenological method, ego cogito, phenomenological and eidetic reduction, intentionality of consciousness.
III week exercisesAnalysis and interpretation of Husserl’s book Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy.
IV week lecturesThe phenomenological concepts of transcendentalism, evidence and constitution, the question of Lebenswelt.
IV week exercisesInterpretation and discussion of select passages from Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology.
V week lecturesK. Jaspers’ philosophy of existence, modalities of reality, existence and transcendence, the comprehensive, limit situations, the concept of the cipher.
V week exercisesSeminar papers on Jaspers’ philosophy, discussion and distinction between the key categories.
VI week lecturesM. Heidegger: fundamental ontology and hermeneutics of Dasein.
VI week exercises
VII week lecturesBeing and Time, questions and problems from the first phase of Heidegger's thinking.
VII week exercisesFirst colloquium.
VIII week lecturesHermeneutic philosophy (Gadamer, Betti, Ricoeur).
VIII week exercisesA discussion on the difference between ontologically and epistemologically oriented hermeneutics.
IX week lecturesHeidegger’s philosophy after the "Turn": the problem of humanism, the matter of technique, the problem of language.
IX week exercisesA conversation on the problem of language in Heidegger.
X week lecturesJ.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 lecturesPhilosophy in the structuralist key (M. Foucault, J. Derrida, J. Lacan).
XI week exercisesPresentation of seminar papers on structuralist philosophy.
XII week lecturesAnalytical philosophy, logical positivism, B. Russell, Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, the Berlin Circle, the Lvov-Warsaw School.
XII week exercisesInterpretation of L. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, discussion on the essential postulates.
XIII week lecturesNeo-Marxism, critical theory of society (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas and others).
XIII week exercisesDefinition and discussion on the basic problems in critical theory.
XIV week lecturesThe problem of deconstruction and J. Derrida’s philosophy.
XIV week exercisesA conversation on deconstruction.
XV week lecturesPostmodern philosophical thought (Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida).
XV week exercisesSecond colloquium.
Student workloadWorkload structure: 123 hours (instruction) + 13 hours and 20 minutes (preparation) + 30 hours (remedial work).
Per weekPer 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.
ConsultationsAfter the lectures.
LiteratureSurveys: 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 remarksFor more extensive reading, the student is free to consult the Professor.
Comment
Grade:FEDCBA
Number of pointsless than 50 pointsgreater than or equal to 50 points and less than 60 pointsgreater than or equal to 60 points and less than 70 pointsgreater than or equal to 70 points and less than 80 pointsgreater than or equal to 80 points and less than 90 pointsgreater than or equal to 90 points

Faculty of Philosophy / PHILOSOPHY / MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS

Course:MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS/
Course IDCourse statusSemesterECTS creditsLessons (Lessons+Exercises+Laboratory)
4574Obavezan764+2+0
ProgramsPHILOSOPHY
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 assistantProfessor Dr Savo Laušević, Dr Srđan Maraš
MethodologyLectures, interpretation of original texts, discussions, seminar papers, colloquia, consultations and the examination.
Plan and program of work
Preparing weekPreparation and registration of the semester
I week lecturesThe foundation of the concepts modernity and conteporaneity. Aesthetical problems of the Renaissance.
I week exercisesA conversation on the problem of the subject as the basis of modern thinking.
II week lecturesThe 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 lecturesA. Baumgarten: the introduction of the name aesthetics. Classical German aesthetics.
III week exercisesIntroduction to the conversation: a seminar paper on Baumgarten’s conception of aesthetics. A follow-up discussion.
IV week lecturesKant: judgement, fancy, taste, the beautiful, the sublime, genius, talent.
IV week exercisesA discussion on the interpretation of Kant’s Introduction to The Critique of Judgement.
V week lecturesSchelling’s philosophy of art as an organon of philosophy; mythology, art, philosophy.
V week exercisesA conversation on Schelling’s theoretical postulate: art is an organon of philosophy.
VI week lecturesHegel’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 exercisesIntroduction: student presentations on the key problems of Hegel’s aesthetics, a follow-up discussion.
VII week lecturesAesthetical currents in the 19th century: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, psychologism in aesthetics (Fechner).
VII week exercisesFirst colloquium.
VIII week lecturesEvolutionism, biologism and naturalism in aesthetics; aesthetics as a general science of art (M. Dessoir).
VIII week exercisesA critical discussion: on the influence of positive science on the understanding of art.
IX week lecturesContemporary 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 exercisesCan there be any discussion on the aesthetic paradigms in 20th-century art? A conversation.
X week lecturesBenedetto 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 exercisesA seminar paper on the relation of aesthetics and linguistics, a follow-up discussion.
XI week lecturesPhenomenological-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 exercisesAnalysis and interpretation of Hartmann’s theory of the aesthetical object and aesthetic act, exposition and conversation.
XII week lecturesR. Ingarden: the aesthetic experience, work of art, aesthetic values.
XII week exercisesAnalytical interpretation and discussion of Ingarden’s book Experience, Artwork and Value. Foundation of aesthetical values.
XIII week lecturesStructuralism in aesthetics: semiotical, symbolical and semantical definitions of aesthetics.
XIII week exercisesA discussion on the application of the structuralist method to the comprehension of art.
XIV week lecturesSigns 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 exercisesA discussion on the comprehension of art through the paradigm of language.
XV week lecturesAesthetics 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 exercisesSecond colloquium.
Student workloadWorkload structure: 128 hours (instruction) + 16 hours (preparation) + 36 hours (remedial work) = 180 hours total.
Per weekPer 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.
ConsultationsAfter the lectures.
LiteratureReference 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 remarksFor more extensive reading the student is free to consult the Professor.
Comment
Grade:FEDCBA
Number of pointsless than 50 pointsgreater than or equal to 50 points and less than 60 pointsgreater than or equal to 60 points and less than 70 pointsgreater than or equal to 70 points and less than 80 pointsgreater than or equal to 80 points and less than 90 pointsgreater than or equal to 90 points

Faculty of Philosophy / PHILOSOPHY / GREAT CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS (ELECTIVE COURSE)

Course:GREAT CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS (ELECTIVE COURSE)/
Course IDCourse statusSemesterECTS creditsLessons (Lessons+Exercises+Laboratory)
4578Obavezan863+0+0
ProgramsPHILOSOPHY
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 assistantProfessor Dr Savo Laušević
MethodologyLectures, analysis of original philosophical texts at diverse interpretive levels, discussions, seminar papers, colloquia, consultations.
Plan and program of work
Preparing weekPreparation and registration of the semester
I week lecturesH.G. Gadamer and philosophical hermeneutics, the event of truth: Truth and Method, the structure of comprehension.
I week exercises
II week lecturesThe development of the hermeneutical problem from Schleiermacher, Dilthey to Heidegger and Gadamer.
II week exercises
III week lecturesPhenomenology and hermeneutics, the fundamentals of hermeneutical experience, the hermeneutical circle, the problem of prejudice.
III week exercises
IV week lecturesThe hermeneutical problem of application, active history, the foundation of the sciences of the spirit.
IV week exercises
V week lecturesHermeneutics and ontology, hermeneutics and practical philosophy (ethical and political implications).
V week exercises
VI week lecturesHermeneutical interpretation of the text.
VI week exercises
VII week lecturesFirst colloquium.
VII week exercises
VIII week lecturesLanguage 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 lecturesThe essential sources of Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy (phenomenology, Judaism, Russian classics, F. Rosenzweig).
X week exercises
XI week lecturesLevinas’ critique of Western philosophy as ontology, the problem of the Other, ethics as first philosophy.
XI week exercises
XII week lecturesThe totality and the infinite, the separation with the totality.
XII week exercises
XIII week lecturesFace-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 lecturesJustice and politics; eschatology of peace; constitution of subjectivity: the I-sub-iectum hypostasis.
XIV week exercises
XV week lecturesSecond colloquium.
XV week exercises
Student workloadWorkload structure: 111 hours (instruction) + 13 hours 20 minutes (preparation) + 30 hours (remedial work).
Per weekPer 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.
ConsultationsAfter the lectures.
LiteratureReadings: (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 remarksFor more extensive reading, the student is free to consult the Professor.
Comment
Grade:FEDCBA
Number of pointsless than 50 pointsgreater than or equal to 50 points and less than 60 pointsgreater than or equal to 60 points and less than 70 pointsgreater than or equal to 70 points and less than 80 pointsgreater than or equal to 80 points and less than 90 pointsgreater than or equal to 90 points
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