(objectives)
At the end of this course students will acquire: - knowledge of main issues concerning aesthetics and the relationships between philosophy and the arts (literature, visual arts, performing arts, architecture, film); - knowledge of some important texts of the history of aesthetics, and of the critical debate on these texts; - mastery of aesthetic terminology and of the argumentative methods in the field of aesthetics and art criticism; - ability of focusing theoretical issues, analyzing information, formulating arguments in the fields of aesthetics, theory of perception, art theories; - ability to contextualize in historical-philosophical perspective aesthetic debates; - ability to expose issues concerning aesthetics in oral and written form.
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