Università Roma Tre

The aim of this course is to provide students with the basic notions of aesthetics (from beauty to kitsch, from ugly to sublime, from interesting to horror and terror), following their conceptual evolution and transformations from antiquity to the modern age up to the present day. One of the essential educational objectives of this course is for students to acquire solid knowledge of the aesthetics and philosophy of art and to be able to orient themselves between the various philosophical and artistic positions of the last few decades. The student will be stimulated to critically question the proposed topics in order to develop an independent capacity for analysis and sensitivity to aesthetic issues. At the end of the course, the student will be able to use with awareness the philosophical-aesthetic vocabulary and bibliographic tools useful to deepen the themes of modern and contemporary aesthetics.