20710707 - PHILOSOPHY OF ART

Philosophy of art is part of the educational activities of the degree course in Communication Sciences. The course aims to provide a critical knowledge of the main issues and problems of the philosophy of art - in particular this academic year of the philosophy of mythology - in its main historical-conceptual and theoretical junctions. The course aims at stimulating students' ability to autonomously consider the implication of different forms of representation and reflect on the connections between aesthetics, epistemology of the human sciences, and forms of knowledge and communication, also providing the conceptual tools of philosophy and aesthetics. At the end of the course, the student will be able to deal with texts, documents and concepts belonging to different orientations of the philosophy of art as well as critically understand different aesthetic ways of representing the real.
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Programme

The course will develop in three main segments and will focus on the relationship between the philosophy of art, myth and mythology. The first part will discuss the philosophy of mythology and myth criticism from the perspective of aesthetics, showing their main historical-philosophical trajectories. In the second part, it will address the debate on the new mythology and on the possibility of a mythology of reason. Finally, in the last part, some authors and texts concerning contemporary critique of myth and mythologies will be addressed.

Core Documentation

- Diego Lanza, Tempo senza tempo. La riflessione sul mito dal Settecento a oggi, Carocci, Roma 2017.

In addition, students (both attending and non-attending) are required to select two texts from the following:

- J. G. Herder, Iduna o il pomo del ringiovanimento, a cura di M. Latini, postfazione di M. Cometa, ETS, Pisa 2019.

- Hegel (?), Schelling (?), Hölderlin (?), Il più antico programma di sistema dell'idealismo tedesco, introduzione, traduzione e commento di Leonardo Amoroso, ETS, Pisa 2009.

- F. Schlegel, Dialogo sulla poesia, in Athenaeum [1798-1800]. Tutti i fascicoli della rivista di August Wilhelm Schlegel e Friedrich Schlegel, a cura di G. Cusatelli, E. Agazzi e D.
Mazza, postfazione di E. Lio, Bompiani, Milano 2008, pp. 651-694, 781-792.

- R. Barthes, Miti d'oggi, Einaudi, Torino 2016, pp. 191-238.

- P. Lacoue-Labarthe, J.-L. Nancy, Il mito nazi, Il Melangolo, Genova 2013.

- F. Jesi, L’accusa del sangue. La macchina mitologica antisemita, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2007.

Reference Bibliography

The following texts are recommended for further reading: P. D'Angelo, L'estetica del Romanticismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 1997. M. Cometa (a cura di), L'età classico-romantica. La cultura letteraria in Germania tra Settecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009. M. Frank, Il dio a venire. Lezioni sulla nuova mitologia, Einaudi, Torino 1994. F. Jesi, Mito, Mondadori, Milano 1980. G. Leghissa, E. Manera (a cura di), Filosofie del mito nel Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2015. P. Szondi, Poetica dell'idealismo tedesco, Einaudi, Torino 1974.

Type of delivery of the course

Lessons will be in presence.

Type of evaluation

Assessment will consist of an oral exam.