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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One text to be chosen from:
G. Debord, La società dello spettacolo, Baldini + Castoldi, 2021 (solamente i capitoli 1, 2, 5 e 6).
J. Rancière, La partizione del sensibile, DeriveApprodi 2022.
W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Einaudi, Torino 2000.
H. Marcuse, L'uomo a una dimensione, Einaudi Torino (solo le parti 1 e 3)
Additional anthological teaching material will be provided via Moodle.
Programme
The course programme will address some of the fundamental questions of the philosophy of art, as well as key issues in the relationship between philosophy of art and social critique. The course will be divided into two parts: the first will examine central themes of the discipline (such as the definition of art and the relationship between philosophy and art) and will analyse the main currents and authors of the philosophical-aesthetic tradition. The second part of the course will instead focus on the relationship between philosophy of art and contemporary society, taking into account authors from the canon of critical social theory.Core Documentation
P. D'Angelo, Estetica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2021One text to be chosen from:
G. Debord, La società dello spettacolo, Baldini + Castoldi, 2021 (solamente i capitoli 1, 2, 5 e 6).
J. Rancière, La partizione del sensibile, DeriveApprodi 2022.
W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Einaudi, Torino 2000.
H. Marcuse, L'uomo a una dimensione, Einaudi Torino (solo le parti 1 e 3)
Additional anthological teaching material will be provided via Moodle.
Attendance
Attendance is strongly recommended.Type 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