Corso di laurea magistrale in Filosofia

The class is intended for all the students at the Laurea Magistrale level. Its aim is to provide an adequate knowledge of the topics and themes concerning the aesthetics of the everyday. The instructor will focus on following skills: reasoning, contextualizing, and processing.

At the end of the course the students will be familiar with:
- historical and theoretical reasons of the reduction of aesthetics to philosophy of art
- theories of aesthetic experience
- definitions of “everyday” in aesthetics
- contemporary debates in aesthetics of the everyday

Taught lectures, 72 hours (12 CFU); oral presentations of written papers.  

The evaluation will be based on a final oral test and on oral presentations of written papers. To meet the course requirements the students will have to show a) the ability to present and analyze the topics developed at class; b) a good mastery of the scientific lexicon involved in the discussion of the main topics; c) the ability to identify connections and relations of interdependence among the texts studied during the course.

The final grade is based on a scale of thirty points.

- artistic judgement / aesthetic judgement / aesthetic experience
- artwork / aesthetic object
- "everyday" in aesthetics
- negative aesthetics
- ambient aesthetics
- action-oriented aesthetics

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J. Dewey, Esperienza e natura, Mursia, 2014 (1925)
J. Dewey, Arte come esperienza, Aesthetica, 2012 (1934)
P. D’Angelo, Filosofia del paesaggio, Quodlibet, 2010
A. Mecacci, Estetica e design, il Mulino, 2012
G. Matteucci, Estetica e pratica del quotidiano, Mimesis, 2015
Y. Saito, “Aesthetics of the Everyday”, in E. Zalta (a c. di), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu), 2015

More bibliographical sources will be provided during the class.

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