Students:
- Should be able to demonstrate knowledge in the history of philosophy and to possess critical abilities that complete the background acquired during the bachelor degree, with particular reference to the history of aesthetics; they should be able to elaborate and/or apply original ideas on the notion of image starting from the course contents, in particular from the dialectic between icon and symbol;
- Should apply their knowledge, comprehension skills and their aesthetic-philosophical sensitivity to the problems and dynamics of change that contemporary society is going through and that characterize the formation of the individual;
- Should have consolidated a learning methodology based on text reading that allows them to deepen and continue to study profitably even autonomously issues only mentioned during the course, such as the phenomenology of the photographic image.
- Should be able to demonstrate knowledge in the history of philosophy and to possess critical abilities that complete the background acquired during the bachelor degree, with particular reference to the history of aesthetics; they should be able to elaborate and/or apply original ideas on the notion of image starting from the course contents, in particular from the dialectic between icon and symbol;
- Should apply their knowledge, comprehension skills and their aesthetic-philosophical sensitivity to the problems and dynamics of change that contemporary society is going through and that characterize the formation of the individual;
- Should have consolidated a learning methodology based on text reading that allows them to deepen and continue to study profitably even autonomously issues only mentioned during the course, such as the phenomenology of the photographic image.
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Course objective
Contemporary society has maximized the impact of images in our ordinary life, revealing their extraordinary communicative power. Images narrate our daily activities. Thanks to modern technologies, we can access photos of a happy family at the seaside and at the same moment the reportage of a terrorist attack. What is an image? Can we provide a definition of image? What is the link between images and reality? The aim of the course is to reflect on the notion of image, evidencing, on one side, the relevance of the concept of image throughout Western history and, on the other side, focusing on the possible impact that a “culture of images” has on the education of individuals.
Choose two among the following texts:
• P. Spinicci, Simili alle ombre e al sogno. La filosofia dell’immagine, Bollati Boringhieri, 2008.
• J.J. Wunenburger, Filosofia delle immagini, Einaudi, 1999
• D. Lopes, Understanding Picures, Oxford University press, 1996
• J. Hyman, The Objective Eye. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2006
• J. Kulvicky, On images, Oxford University Press, 2006
• M. Newall, What is a Picture? Depiction, Realism, Abstraction, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Part B
Choose one of the following texts:
• M.J. Mondzain, L’immagine che uccide. La violenza come spettacolo dalle torri gemelle all’Isis, EDB, 2017
• L. Russo (a cura di), Vedere l’invisibile. Nicea e lo statuto dell’immagine. Aesthetica, Palermo, 1999
• M. Bettetini, Contro le immagini. Le radici dell’iconoclastia, Laterza, 2006.
• E. Franzini, Fenomenologia dell’invisibile. Al di là dell’immagine. Raffaello Cortina, 2001.
• F. Vercellone, Il futuro dell’immagine, Il Mulino, 2017
• E. Kitzinger, Il culto delle immagini, Meltemi, 2018
Programme
Educating your gaze. Toward a philosophy of images.Course objective
Contemporary society has maximized the impact of images in our ordinary life, revealing their extraordinary communicative power. Images narrate our daily activities. Thanks to modern technologies, we can access photos of a happy family at the seaside and at the same moment the reportage of a terrorist attack. What is an image? Can we provide a definition of image? What is the link between images and reality? The aim of the course is to reflect on the notion of image, evidencing, on one side, the relevance of the concept of image throughout Western history and, on the other side, focusing on the possible impact that a “culture of images” has on the education of individuals.
Core Documentation
Part AChoose two among the following texts:
• P. Spinicci, Simili alle ombre e al sogno. La filosofia dell’immagine, Bollati Boringhieri, 2008.
• J.J. Wunenburger, Filosofia delle immagini, Einaudi, 1999
• D. Lopes, Understanding Picures, Oxford University press, 1996
• J. Hyman, The Objective Eye. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2006
• J. Kulvicky, On images, Oxford University Press, 2006
• M. Newall, What is a Picture? Depiction, Realism, Abstraction, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Part B
Choose one of the following texts:
• M.J. Mondzain, L’immagine che uccide. La violenza come spettacolo dalle torri gemelle all’Isis, EDB, 2017
• L. Russo (a cura di), Vedere l’invisibile. Nicea e lo statuto dell’immagine. Aesthetica, Palermo, 1999
• M. Bettetini, Contro le immagini. Le radici dell’iconoclastia, Laterza, 2006.
• E. Franzini, Fenomenologia dell’invisibile. Al di là dell’immagine. Raffaello Cortina, 2001.
• F. Vercellone, Il futuro dell’immagine, Il Mulino, 2017
• E. Kitzinger, Il culto delle immagini, Meltemi, 2018
Type of evaluation
Oral examination