Aesthetics (s) (2005/2006)

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Course code
4S01455
Name of lecturer
Paolo Gambazzi
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
Academic sector
M-FIL/04 - AESTHETICS
Language of instruction
Italian
Period
2nd semester dal Feb 20, 2006 al May 31, 2006.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

To highlight the complexity of the philosophical issues of aesthetics. To raise questions about art and beauty, but also about aesthetics as world of perception and feelings. Aesthetics is both the study of beauty and art and a term denoting those properties of an entity relating to sensibility (Kant for example calls aesthetics the science dealing with the conditions of sensible perception). Aesthetics is not art criticism or art history. We will explore the philosophical area of aesthetics. Goal of aesthetics as well as of philosophy is “to create concepts” (Gilles Deleuze) investigating the ontological significance of the works of art as well as their relationship with the history and the life of men. We will also examine some examples of art in order to highlight their importance for critical philosophical questions.

Syllabus

Analysis of Deleuze’s The Fold. Leibniz and the Baroque. Discussion of the main concepts (difference, perspectivism, infinity, continuity, work of art as chaosmos).

Assessment methods and criteria

The oral exam includes discussion of the main concepts of the texts listed in the bibliography.

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