This course intends to introduce students to the main aesthetic categories through a mainly theoretical study of problems defining aesthetics. At the end of the lessons, students should be able to know and understand the main philosophical text of the history of aesthetics, to interpret the debates characterizing this discipline and to bring back the many critical positions to the theoretical orientations identifying the discipline.
Course Prerequisites
Attending and non-attending students should have notions, at least in general, of the main themes and problems of occidental philosophy, they should be able to chronologically situate the main authors of the history of philosophy and to critically understand a philosophical text.
Teaching Methods
The course is articulated in 36 frontal lessons where the theoretical study of the discipline is integrated with the critical analysis of some texts, relevant for the discipline
Assessment Methods
Oral examination: students have to demonstrate to known and to correctly expose the themes discussed during lessons. They should also be able to demonstrate an assimilation and a rephrasing of the studied information through logical comparisons and critical analysis. The exam also foresees a critical comment of a section belonging to one of the philosophical texts discussed during lessons.
Texts
In addition to the lesson notes, students are required to study: FIRST PART N. Warburton, La questione dell’arte, Einaudi, Torino, 2004. SECOND PART G.W.F. Hegel, Lezioni di estetica, a cura di P. D’Angelo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007. D. Formaggio, La “morte dell’arte” e l’Estetica, Aesthetica, Palermo 1983: Parte Prima, pp. 7-187. A. Danto, La destituzione filosofica dell’arte, a cura di T. Andina, Aesthetica, Palermo 2008.
Contents
The course is divided into two parts. The first part of the lessons will give a general introduction to the main aesthetic categories through a theoretical approach. Themes analysed will be: beauty, art, aesthetic illusion, sublime, imagination and symbol, taste and disgust. The second module will be monographic in nature and will address a fundamental text on aesthetics, namely Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. The paragraphs of the first part of the text will be discussed, with particular attention paid to the definitions of work of art, beauty, art history, and symbol.
Course Language
Italian
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