HISTORY OF AESTHETIC

To acknowledge the main philosophical issues related to the aesthetic experience; to develop a critical approach to the philosophical discussion on art, beauty and perception from antiquity to modern days.

The course will be based on traditional lectures, with frequent critical discussions on relevant images and philosophical texts.

The principles of the Western aesthetics. In particular, the course will focus on the meaning of mimesis and beauty in Plato and Callimachus and on the issues of mimetic representation in contemporary aesthetics.

• W. Tatarkiewicz, Storia di sei idee, Aesthetica, Palermo 2011, pp. 387.

• S. Halliwell, L’estetica della mimesis. Testi antichi e problemi moderni, a c. di G. Lombardo, Aesthetica, Palermo 2009, pp. 444.

• Platone, Fedro, a c. di M. Bonazzi, Einaudi, Torino 2011, pp. 280.

• D. Iozzia, La filosofia come spunto poetico e polemico in Callimaco, in P.B. Cipolla (ed.), Metodo e Passione. Atti dell’Incontro di Studi in onore di Giuseppina Basta Donzelli (Catania,11-12 Aprile 2016), Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 2018, pp. 75-93.

• A.C. Danto La trasfigurazione del banale. Una filosofia dell’arte, Laterza, Bari 2008, pp. 270.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.