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.
teacher profile teaching materials
G. Debord, La società dello spettacolo, Baldini Castoldi, Milano 2017
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Students who are not attending should integrate the programme with the following text:
A. Jappe, Guy Debord, Manifestolibri, Roma 2013
Programme
The course programme will address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of art, as well as some of the main intersections in the relationship between the philosophy of art and the critique of society. The course will be developed in two parts: in the first part some of the cardinal themes of the discipline will be addressed and the most important directions and authors of the aesthetic philosophical tradition will be analysed. The second part of the course will focus on the relationship between the philosophy of art and critique of the society of the spectacle.Core Documentation
P. D'Angelo, Estetica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2021G. Debord, La società dello spettacolo, Baldini Castoldi, Milano 2017
Other learning materials may be provided by the professor via moodle.
Students who are not attending should integrate the programme with the following text:
A. Jappe, Guy Debord, Manifestolibri, Roma 2013
Reference Bibliography
For further reading on Debord: A. Jappe, Guy Debord, Manifestolibri, Roma 2013; A. Jappe, Guy Debord: un complotto permanente contro il mondo intero, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2023; A. Kaveh, Le ceneri di Guy Debord, Catartica, Sassari 2020; M. Perniola, L'avventura situazionista. Storia critica dell'ultima avanguardia del XX secolo, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2013; T. Bunyard, Debord, Time and Spectacle, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2018; E.-J. Russel, Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord, Bloomsbury, London 2021Type of evaluation
The written text will consist of closed-ended questions (e.g. multiple-choice, completions, matching etc.) and open-ended questions (e.g. questions requiring the definition of a concept or category, or the explanation of a particular aesthetic theory etc.). The following criteria will be taken into account in the assessment: - the degree of knowledge of the conceptual contents of the texts examined or discussed (through both closed-ended and open-ended questions); - the ability to synthesise complex contents in a short space, but in an accurate and rigorous manner (particularly in the case of open-ended questions); - the mastery of more specific information relating to authors, artists, theories, works and so on (e.g. in the case of multiple-choice answers); Duration of test: 90 minutes