HISTORY OF AESTHETIC

The course will be articulated through lectures with the support of texts and images. After analysing the theoretical status of aesthetics, the problem of the ornament will be discussed with reference to literature and visual arts.

The principles of Western aesthetics. In particular, the course will focus on the aesthetic issue of the ornament, from Plato to contemporary aesthetics.

1) Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Storia di sei idee, Aesthetica, Palermo 2011, pp. 1-223 e 335-399.

2) Luigi Russo (a c. di), Dopo l’estetica, Aesthetica Preprint Supplementa, Palermo 2010, pp. 7-165 (primi undici saggi).

3) Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Filosofia dell'ornamento, Sellerio, Palermo 2010, pp. 140.

4) Daniele Iozzia, ‘Graphe sioposa: La giustificazione del ruolo della pittura nei Cappadoci,’ in Silenzio e Parola nella Patristica. Atti del XXXIX Incontro di Studiosi dell'Antichità Cristiana, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Roma 2012, pp. 675-683.

5) Elisabetta Di Stefano, Estetiche dell'ornamento, Mimesis, Milano 2006, pp. 157.

6) Wolfgang Welsch, ‘L’origine animale dell’estetica,’ in Rivista di estetica, 54 (2013), pp. 181-206.

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