Università Roma Tre

The aim of this course is to provide students with the basic notions of aesthetics (from beautiful to kitsch, from ugly to sublime, from interesting to horror and terror), following its conceptual evolution and transformations from antiquity to the modern age and to the present day.
One of the main educational goals of this course is to provide students with a solid knowledge of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, as well as the ability to orientate themselves among the various philosophical and artistic positions of recent decades. Students will be stimulated to critically examine the topics proposed in order to develop an autonomous 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 the bibliographical tools useful to deepen the themes of modern and contemporary aesthetics, both Western and Eastern.