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 principles of the Western aesthetics. In particular, the course will focus on the meaning of mimesis, on the issue of the Beautiful in Plotinus and on the appreciation of the role of the artist in Renaissance and classicist aesthetic theories.

S. Halliwell, L’estetica della mimesis. Testi antichi e problemi moderni, tr. by G. Lombardo, Aesthetica, Palermo 2009, pp. 444.

• Elio Franzini e Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis, Breve storia dell’estetica, Mondadori, Milano 2003, pp. 143.

• Plotin, Traité 1, I 6, par Anne-Lise Darras-Worms, Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris 2007, pp. 292. Alternatively, students can read any other translation of Plotinus’ treatise On beauty (Enn. I 6), however they will need notes from the lectures.

• D. Iozzia, «Come mai l’oro è bello?». Plotino, Enn. I 6 (1), 34 e i Cappadoci, in Daniele Iozzia (ed.), Philosophy and Art in Late Antiquity. Proceedings of the International Seminar of Catania, 8-9 November 2012, Bonanno, Acireale 2013, pp. 129-149.

• D. Iozzia, Metafora e arti visive in Plotino, in R. Loredana Cardullo and Daniele Iozzia (ed.), KALLOS KAI ARETH. Bellezza e virtù. Studi in onore di Maria Barbanti, Bonanno, Acireale 2014, pp. 391-400.

• E. Panofsky, Idea. Contributo alla storia dell’estetica, tr. by E. Cione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2006, pp. 209. Alternatively, students can read any other edition or translation of the book.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

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