The course aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of the vocabulary and the fundamental problems of aesthetics. Specific attention will be deserved to some of the most significant authors in the discipline.
Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge to discuss and to develop arguments both in a theorical and in a historical perspective.
Students are expected to acquire the following skills:
Advanced critical thinking on aesthetics;
Advanced language and argumentation skills about the topic of the course;
Capacity to read and analyse texts about Aesthetics;
Oral and/or written presentation (Italian or English)
Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge to discuss and to develop arguments both in a theorical and in a historical perspective.
Students are expected to acquire the following skills:
Advanced critical thinking on aesthetics;
Advanced language and argumentation skills about the topic of the course;
Capacity to read and analyse texts about Aesthetics;
Oral and/or written presentation (Italian or English)
teacher profile teaching materials
G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Kafka, per una letteratura minore, Quodlibet, Macerata.
G. Deleuze, C. Parnet, Conversazioni, Ombre corte, Verona, in partic. capp. I e II.
G. Deleuze, Critica e clinica, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, in partic. capp. 1, 3, 4, 10.
A reading of your choice among:
L. Carroll, Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, qualsiasi edizione.
F. Kafka, Il processo, qualsiasi edizione.
H. Melville, Bartleby lo scrivano e Billy Budd, qualsiasi edizione.
A reading of your choice among:
M. Duras, Il rapimento di Lol V. Stein, qualsiasi edizione.
C. Lispector, Acqua viva, qualsiasi edizione.
Programme
The course will start with an introduction to Deleuze's thought, then move on to the reading and commentary of some passages of Logica del senso (1969) focusing on the concepts of becoming and event. The second part of the course will follow some literary traces present in the 1969 text, and will deal with the relationship between literature and philosophy in Deleuze's thought, focusing in particular on some authors.Core Documentation
G. Deleuze, Logica del senso, Feltrinelli, Milano.G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Kafka, per una letteratura minore, Quodlibet, Macerata.
G. Deleuze, C. Parnet, Conversazioni, Ombre corte, Verona, in partic. capp. I e II.
G. Deleuze, Critica e clinica, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, in partic. capp. 1, 3, 4, 10.
A reading of your choice among:
L. Carroll, Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, qualsiasi edizione.
F. Kafka, Il processo, qualsiasi edizione.
H. Melville, Bartleby lo scrivano e Billy Budd, qualsiasi edizione.
A reading of your choice among:
M. Duras, Il rapimento di Lol V. Stein, qualsiasi edizione.
C. Lispector, Acqua viva, qualsiasi edizione.
Type of delivery of the course
The course includes Lectures; Discussions with students and debates on topics covered; Oral presentations by students; Attendance is not mandatory but strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
The evaluation will be carried out by means of an oral test.