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The Topic of Corporeity in Phenomenological Inquiries into the Aesthetic Experience of Landscape
Slančíková, Jana ; Ševčík, Miloš (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
This Diploma thesis is dealing with an analysis of the space understood like an interactive phenomenon, which is following our aesthetic enjoyment of a landscape. The description of this phenomenon is examined in the work of an American philosopher Arnold Berleant, but against a background of European phenomenological tradition. As a ground, on which can be an understanding of an experience of space built, will be in our thesis the phenomenological inquiry into the perception of corporeity, mainly in the work of Jan Patočka and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. An interaction between subject and object in the aesthetic experience of landscape is appearing as an completely unique, nondelegable and non-repetitive human experience. For the more concrete insight into this issue is necessary to analyze some factors entering into the aesthetic experience of landscape. The first of all is the factor of engaging our senses as an essential background of every aesthetic experience. The next important step is to study the perception of the space-time, the necessity of the bodily movement and a concrete corporeal engagement, which determines our possibilities of an exploration of such an environment. Landscape can not be moved, we have to come and pass through, where it is allowed. This fact does not mean, that we are...
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The Phenomenon of Life within the Aesthetic Experience of Nature
Matějková, Magdalena ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
The Verity in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature by A. Carlson and R. W. Hepburn Abstract The thesis being presented deals with the issues of aesthetic appreciation of nature. The aim of the work is to examine the possible meanings of the concept of verity as a feature of the aesthetic appreciation of nature. Firstly, the work analyzes and compare the theories of two recent authors, champions of the cognitive approach in the aesthetics of nature, Allen Carlson and Ronald. W. Hepburn. Each of them relates the aesthetic appreciation of nature with its discovering in a different way. Their approaches are analyzed in three main points. First, the analysis focuses on the terms the authors employ, second, it focuses on the significance the authors attribute to the veracity of the aesthetic experience, and finally, it describes the concept of thought component as it figures by both authors. Subsequently, these two approaches are compared and criticized. The final part of the work develops the ideas presented in the previous analysis. The thought component of the aesthetic experience is presented in a more relativist way and the advantages of such an open approach are pointed out. This new approach is roughly compared with the theory of M. Budd and it is confronted with the concept of indexical fallacy of C....
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The aesthetic experience of garden: In between of art and nature
Veselá, Marie ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
The thesis is dealing with the phenomena of garden in context of enviromental aesthetic. Garden is an unique space balancing in between artificial and natural and it is a diverse space full of contrasts and questions that seek answers. The aim of the thesis is not only to clarify its mixed nature but also to localize the uniqueness of an aesthetic dimension within its appreciaton. First, the fields of aesthetics in art and in nature will be defined. Second, our attention will be focused on the position of garden in between of these two fields. Special attention will be paid to the aspect of the borders, respectively ramework, whether physical or interpretative. The thesis will follow the border as a distinctive factor as well as the common element linking the garden with art and nature.
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The aesthetic experience of ruins
Pechoušková, Klára ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
Bachelor project follows the basic definition of ruins, dilapidated objects as specific object of aesthetics. Visitors are attracted by such places for many reasons and one of them is traditionally the hunt for a specific aesthetic experience. The goal of the project is to identify the quality of this experience through comparison with two basic types of aesthetic objects: artworks and natural aesthetic objects. Nature and culture are often considered two divided fields. A ruin is an object which doesn't fully belong to the area of artifacts but neither is a fully natural element. Primary literature bases on contemporary environmental aesthetics and is complemented by basic titles of so-called "aesthetics of ruins" or "aesthetics of decay". The end of the project discuss the use of the achieved findings in exploration of the aesthetic specificity of modern ruins like abandoned factories, hospitals, schools, hotels etc. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Genius loci as an aesthetic issue
Křížová, Lucie ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Zuska, Vlastimil (referee)
(in English): Diploma thesis Genius loci as an aesthetic problem is addressed by defining the concept of genius loci and exploring its aesthetic implications and parallels. After clarification of the ontological nature of this phenomenon its commonalities will be monitored with selected concepts of environmental philosophy and aesthetics, especially the aesthetic dimension of the environmental experience. Publications of Christian Norberg-Schulz and David E. Cooper are used as a starting material.
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Conception of Life Style of Bohuslav Brouk in the Context of Czech Interwar Avant-Garde
Ecksteinová, Jana ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Jarošová, Helena (referee)
The thesis concentrates mainly on mapping of specific term "Life style" and compares its conceptions with classical theory of style with respect to period context. The authors who participated in development of the term "Life style" in a Czech aesthetics are introduced in the thesis: Karel Honzík, Oldřich Stefan, Ladislav Žák and mainly Bohuslav Brouk, who was engaged in the topic the most by far. The aim of the thesis is to analyze and understand specific and original interpretation of style proclaimed by Bohuslav Brouk and his peers and followers. The second aim is to do a subsequent research of the status of the aesthetic function in the theory of "Life style". Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Emotions in fiction
Martinková, Zuzana ; Zuska, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
The main focus of the thesis are emotional reactions to works of fiction in the process of aesthetic experience. As we are talking about emotions evoked by fictional characters and stories, it begs the question of their nature and genuineness. Following the contemporary theories of emotions (in particular those by Antonio Damasio), the thesis deals with our emotional reactions to fiction in the context of aesthetic experience. It does so by exploring important factors that are a part of the experience: imagination, identification, empathy, sympathy, simulation, and their role not only in the narrative comprehension of the fiction, but also in the deeper understanding of the nature of our emotional reactions to the works of fiction. Based on the above aspects, the thesis evaluates the nature of the emotions experienced during the reception of fiction, and it culminates with a review of the contribution of the emotional experience of fiction to the recipient. The thesis debates the emotions as an instrument for recognition and it attempts to look on the emotions as a cognitive-evaluating factor. Keywords: emotions, fiction, aesthetic experience, empathy, simulation
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Perspectives of an Art Institution
Lojdová, Šárka ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kulka, Tomáš (referee)
This master thesis "Perspectives of an Art Institution" focuses on the George Dickie's institutional theory of art (thereafter IT). This theory defines "work of art" as a result of the position of an artefact in the institutional framework of the artworld. The author of the thesis pays attention to the historical development of the IT- firstly published in 1969 in the article "Defining Art" and radically revisited in the book The Art Circle in 1984- as well as to the critical discussion based on Dickie's theory. In the first chapter she compares both the earlier and the later version of the theory; in following chapters she concerns with objections formulated against Dickie's IT. IT seems to be problematic in several aspects: the term "institution" is considered to be ambiguous; Dickie fails to give a full description of roles and rules which determine the operations of the artworld; the notion of appreciation seems to be contradictory with Dickie's opinions presented earlier; circularity; and Dickie's unsatisfactory attention to the historical dimension of the artworld. All of these objections are compared with Dickie's theory to prove their legitimacy or to refuse them as illegitimate. Not only aims the thesis to sum up the critical discussion but it aims to answer the question if the theory...
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Discourse of Woman's Beauty as a Cult in Current Society
Sucháčová, Ivana ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Jarošová, Helena (referee)
The topic of this diploma work is about the reflections on biological and cultural determination of female beauty. By research of these two fields, this work is concerned with the inquiry of their correlative relation in the aesthetic ideal of the female beauty in nowadays, primarily in the expressions of the highest aesthetization nearly of its artificiality of body. This work examines to what extent the biological determination of the body interacts in the aesthetization process. First, the work outlines the biologically determinated preferences of the female physical attraction through the evolutionary process of sexual selection and it supports their relevance by the Darwinian theory about the existing taste in animal world. This work introduces the cultural determination on female beauty on the platform of society designated expressions of the aesthetization of female body, fully expanded from nineteenth century, and the reflection on correlative relation of these two inseparable fields is discussed on the background of the highest aesthetization process of female body in the context of its aesthetic ideal of nowadays. KEY WORDS body and corporeality, female beauty, biological determination, cultural determination, aesthetization, artificiality
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