2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

M-FIL/04 (AESTHETICS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO

3°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

FELOJ SERENA (titolare) - 12 ECTS

Attending and non-attending students should have notions, at least in general, of the main themes and problems of occidental philosophy, they should be able to chronologically situate the main authors of the history of philosophy and to critically understand a philosophical text.

This course intends to introduce students to the main aesthetic categories through a mainly theoretical study of problems defining aesthetics. At the end of the lessons, students should be able to know and understand the main philosophical text of the history of aesthetics, to interpret the debates characterizing this discipline and to bring back the many critical positions to the theoretical orientations identifying the discipline.

The course is divided into two parts. The first part of the lessons will give a general introduction to the main aesthetic categories through a theoretical approach. Themes analysed will be: beauty, art, aesthetic illusion, sublime, imagination and symbol, taste and disgust. The second part of the course, single-subject oriented, will take into analysis one of the most important issue of classic aesthetics, i.e. the debate about the relation between ancient and modern in the definition of the beauty. Also with the occasion of the twofold Winckelmann’s anniversary in 2017 and in 2018, the course will start with a study of Winckelmann’s aesthetics and will end with Hegel’s aesthetics.

The course is articulated in 36 frontal lessons where the theoretical study of the discipline is integrated with the critical analysis of some texts, relevant for the discipline

Besides lessons records, the books required are:
Elio Franzini, Introduzione all’estetica, il Mulino, Bologna 2012.
J.J. Winckelmann, Pensieri sull’imitazione dell’arte greca nella pittura e nella scultura, in Il bello nell’arte. Scritti sull’arte antica, a cura di F. Pfister, SE, Milano 2008, pp. 19-49.
G.E. Lessing, Laocoonte, a cura di M. Cometa, Aesthetica, Palermo 2007, pp. 21-50.
F. Schiller, Sulla poesia ingenua e sentimentale, a cura di E. Franzini e W. Scotti, SE, Milano 2005.
F. Hölderlin, Pane e vino, in Poesie scelte, a cura di S. Mati, Feltrinelli, Milano 2010, p. 175.
F. Hölderlin, Giudizio ed essere, in Scritti di estetica, a cura di R. Ruschi, Mondadori, Milano, pp. 52-53.
G.W.F. Hegel, Le forme universali dell’arte, in Lezioni di estetica, a cura di P. D’Angelo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007, pp. 114-198.

Oral examination: students have to demonstrate to known and to correctly expose the themes discussed during lessons. They should also be able to demonstrate an assimilation and a rephrasing of the studied information through logical comparisons and critical analysis. The exam also foresees a critical comment of a section belonging to one of the philosophical texts discussed during lessons.

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS ARE PLEASED TO CONTACT THE PROFESSOR