FOUNDATIONS OF AESTHETICS
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
IVANA ANNA RANDAZZO
Expected Learning Outcomes
will
demonstrate:
1. knowledge and
understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle;
ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.
2. ability to
apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or
unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts
connected to one's field of study;
3. ability to
integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that
is not necessarily complete;
4. ability to
communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and
non-specialist interlocutors.
5. ability to
carry out research autonomously.
Course Structure
Lectures.
Required Prerequisites
No prerequisites required.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
A – General Contents (4 CFU)
The course aims to highlight the main stances in the
history of aesthetical thought, from Plato, through Aristotle, Pseudo-Longino,
Plotino, Leonardo da Vinci, G. Vico, A. Baumgarten, E. Burke, Ch. Batteaux, I.
Kant, F. Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, A. Schopenhauer, C. Baudelaire, up to B.
Croce, W. Benjamin, M. Heidegger and M. Merleau-Ponty.
B – Monographic section (5 CFU)
It will be laid out an inquiry about the link among
body, perception and knowledge with reference to Cassirer and Merlau-Ponty.
Textbook Information
A – General
Contents (4 CFU)
P. D’Angelo, E. Franzini, G. Scaramuzza, Estetica, Raffaello Cortina editore, 2002, pp. 1-340.
B – Monographic section (5 CFU)
E. Cassirer, La filosofia delle forme simboliche, vol. 3.1:
Fenomenologia della conoscenza,
Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1961, pp. 1-372.
M. Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologia della percezione, Milano,
Bompiani, 2012, pp. 111-274.
