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This essay endeavours to cover and clarify the extraordinarily long and complicated approval process - unparalleled in the history of European aesthetics - of the first Austrian court-approved university textbook of aesthetics of local provenance, Franz Ficker's Aesthetik (1830). The detailed account of the negotiations preceding the approval is followed by general conclusions concerning the nature of Austrian aesthetics, the operation of Austrian universities, and Austrian university policy in the period preceding the March 1848 revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the first time ever, this study presents Anton Müller's drama theory, which made up a principal part of his lectures in the academic year of 1830/31. It outlines the core of Müller's theory by bringing together standpoints that are dispersed throughout the lecture series, as recorded in the handwritten notes taken down by Karl Holzinger. This approach aims to establish a suitable foundation for launching a comprehensive and systematic examination of Müller's aesthetics, facilitating a deeper understanding of his position in pre-1848 Bohemian culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a summary of the main views in Dambeck's lectures on aesthetics on the basis of all known sources and compares the views thus obtained with views developed in German aesthetics in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, with the aim of finding their chief source and reintegrating them both into German aesthetics and, more narrowly, into the aesthetics taught at Prague University. Johann Heinrich Dambeck constructed his lecture series on the plan of Zschokke's textbook Ideen zur psychologischen Aesthetik (1793) which has never been taken into account in any other research on his lectures. The close link between Dambeck's lectures and this textbook compels us to revise the current understanding of the nature of their ideas. Dambeck has so far been most often unproblematically presented as an adherent and disseminator of Kant's and Schiller's ideas about aesthetics in the Bohemian Lands. The key textbook on which he bases his university lecture series is, however, intentionally un-Kantian. Zschokke's Ideen is part of the psychological-anthropological stream of Late-Enlightenment German aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics is the property of Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article examines the methods of teaching aesthetics in Czech Republic. It states that the teaching of aesthetics at universities began as part of the university reforms of Maria Theresa when Karl Heinrich Seibt was appointed to the Chair of the Schone Wissenschaften and Moral Philosophy at Prague University in 1973. It indicates that a course in aesthetics was a preliminary requirement for studies in the faculties of Theology, Law, and Medicine until 1791. It also notes that lectures in aesthetics were given intermittently in the second oldest university in the country.