Aesthetics of Objects
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to outline a theoretical and historical phenomenology of how the concept of "aesthetic object" has been articulated in the modern world from the phenomenological tradition up to its postmodern determinations, which imply a progressive dissolution.
The course aims to give the student the appropriate general knowledge about the theoretical sense that the object has taken in different modern philosophical perspectives.
The course aims to give the student the appropriate general knowledge about the theoretical sense that the object has taken in different modern philosophical perspectives.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge:
The course aims to raise students' awareness of the concept of the "aesthetic object" considered in its theoretical dimensions and cultural impacts.
Skills:
Know how to critically read texts and acquire their contents; know how to recognize the different philosophical and interpretive perspectives; know how to express topics in an orderly fashion and with appropriate language. Understand the symbolic value of objects.
The course aims to raise students' awareness of the concept of the "aesthetic object" considered in its theoretical dimensions and cultural impacts.
Skills:
Know how to critically read texts and acquire their contents; know how to recognize the different philosophical and interpretive perspectives; know how to express topics in an orderly fashion and with appropriate language. Understand the symbolic value of objects.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The Modernism is a fundamental category in the philosophical and aesthetic tradition. It can be translated in different ways. In this course, we have chosen to analyse its relation to the body through authors who were in dialogue with each other in the 20th century. In this way, the spaces of power, those of historical genealogies and epistemological foundations can find a common ground of confrontation by looking at the stratified spaces in which the body dwells. Indeed, built space offers a complex experience that must always be conceived in relation to the living body, where the subjective dimension is in dialogue with the objectivity of the place.
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Teaching Resources
ESTETICA, ARTE E DISINCANTAMENTO
Modulo A: Il disincantamento e la razionalizzazione
M. Weber, L'etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo, Milano, Rizzoli
Modulo B: Un'estetica disincantata
F. Nietzsche, Genealogia della morale, Milano, Adelphi
G. Simmel, Stile moderno. Saggi di estetica sociale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 187-227; 314-328; 402-417
E. Franzini, Moderno e postmoderno. Un bilancio, Milano, Cortina
Modulo C: Mondo dell'arte, indici e nuovi miti
G. Simmel, Stile moderno. Saggi di estetica sociale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 388-393
A. Danto, Il mondo dell'arte (1964), in Studi di Estetica, n. 27, 2003, pp. 65-86.
A. Danto, Oltre il Brillo Box. Il mondo dell'arte dopo la fine della storia (1992), Christian Mariotti Edizioni, Milano 2010. (cap. da 2 a 7)
Modulo A: Il disincantamento e la razionalizzazione
M. Weber, L'etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo, Milano, Rizzoli
Modulo B: Un'estetica disincantata
F. Nietzsche, Genealogia della morale, Milano, Adelphi
G. Simmel, Stile moderno. Saggi di estetica sociale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 187-227; 314-328; 402-417
E. Franzini, Moderno e postmoderno. Un bilancio, Milano, Cortina
Modulo C: Mondo dell'arte, indici e nuovi miti
G. Simmel, Stile moderno. Saggi di estetica sociale, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 388-393
A. Danto, Il mondo dell'arte (1964), in Studi di Estetica, n. 27, 2003, pp. 65-86.
A. Danto, Oltre il Brillo Box. Il mondo dell'arte dopo la fine della storia (1992), Christian Mariotti Edizioni, Milano 2010. (cap. da 2 a 7)
Assessment methods and Criteria
The oral test is an interview to test the student's knowledge of the texts and topics covered during the course.
Unita' didattica A
M-FIL/04 - AESTHETICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Franzini Elio
Unita' didattica B
M-FIL/04 - AESTHETICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Franzini Elio
Unita' didattica C
M-FIL/04 - AESTHETICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Bandi Fabrizia
Professor(s)