Università Roma Tre

Philosophy of art is part of the educational activities of the degree course in Communication Sciences. The course aims to provide a critical knowledge of the main issues and problems of the philosophy of art - in particular this academic year of the philosophy of mythology - in its main historical-conceptual and theoretical junctions. The course aims at stimulating students' ability to autonomously consider the implication of different forms of representation and reflect on the connections between aesthetics, epistemology of the human sciences, and forms of knowledge and communication, also providing the conceptual tools of philosophy and aesthetics. At the end of the course, the student will be able to deal with texts, documents and concepts belonging to different orientations of the philosophy of art as well as critically understand different aesthetic ways of representing the real.