FPF:UBKCJLBK55 Literature and ethics - Course Information
UBKCJLBK55 Literature and ethics
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jan Heczko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Heczko, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jan Heczko, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- TYP_STUDIA(B)
Ability to understand professional (philosophical and literary) text. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Czech language and literature (programme FPF, CJAL)
- Course objectives
- The course deals with various connections between literature (art) and ethics (morality), resp. relationships between ethical norms and the function of literature. The introductory lessons present the forms of these relationships in a historical perspective. The following sections deal with ethical issues and the so-called ethical turn in contemporary criticism. Since thinking about literature does not happen in a vacuum, some ethical approaches, as dealt with in contemporary philosophy or sociology, are also presented.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, the student: will gain an overview of how the relationships between art and ethical issues have been formed throughout history; is able to orientate in the main ethical approaches of contemporary thinking; get acquainted with ethical issues of various schools of criticism; deepen the ability to reflect on one's reading experience.
- Syllabus
- 1. Art and / versus morality, ethics and / versus literature: a historical overview I.
- 2. Art and / versus morality, ethics and / versus literature: a historical overview II.
- 3. Art and / versus morality, ethics and / versus literature: a historical overview III.
- 4. Loss of virtue (A. MacIntyre) in the liquid world (Z. Bauman) and at the time of critique of ethical essentialism (poststructuralism).
- 5. The need for an ordered model of the world (Ch. Taylor), useful fiction (R. Rorty).
- 6. Engaged literature (J.-P-Sartre, T. Eagleton, P. Bourdieu).
- 7. Literature and traditional values (W. Booth, F. R. Leavis).
- 8. Reception aesthetics - ethical impuls.
- 9. Hermeneutics – ethical impuls I.
- 10. Hermeneutics – ethical impuls II.
- 11. Deconstruction of J. Derrida – how to do justice to the other.
- 12. Ethics or reading – J. Hillis Miller.
- 13. Literature as a unique event and responsible reading – Derek Attridge.
- Literature
- required literature
- GADAMER, H.-G. Člověk a řeč. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1999.
- HECZKO, J. Současné myšlení o literatuře. Distanční studijní text. Opava: SU FPF, 2018
- ATTRIDGE, D. „Ta podivná instituce, které se říká literatura“. Rozhovor s Jacquesem Derridou. Aluze, 2000, roč. 4, č. 2, s. 122–150.
- ATTRIDGE, D. Derrida a problematizování literatury. Aluze, 2000, roč. 4, č. 2, s. 102–120.
- NÜNNING, A. (ed.). Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury. Brno, 2006. info
- Čtenář jako výzva. Výbor z prací kostnické školy recepční estetiky. Brno, 2001. info
- recommended literature
- MACINTYRE, A. Ztráta ctnosti. K morální krizi současnosti. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004.
- TAYLOR, Ch. Etika autenticity. Praha: Filosofia, 2002.
- BAUMAN, Z. Tekuté časy. Praha: Academia, 2017.
- RICOEUR, P. Čas a vyprávění III. Praha, 2008. info
- KERMODE, F. Smysl konců. Brno, 2007. info
- DERRIDA, J. Síla zákona. Praha, 2002. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, homework – reading, class discussion.
- Assessment methods
- Classified discussion on the prepared seminar work.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4p+4s/sem.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2020, recent)
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