- Docente: Giovanni Matteucci
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Visual Arts (cod. 0977)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student has a sufficient critical awareness of some major aesthetic traditions in the last century. Also acquires the conceptual and methodological tools enabling it to analyze the key issues that are central to the contemporary aesthetic debate, according to a mainly theoretical and problematic approach.
Course contents
Title: Mimesis and Aura between Benjamin and Adorno.
Through the analysis of texts of the philosophers mentioned, the course will explore the status of the aesthetic and the arts starting from the categories od "Aura" and "Mimesis", making special reference to the transformations occurred during the twentieth Century.
Beginning: November, 10th, 2016.
Timetable: second period (first semester) - Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 9 to 11.
Classroom: via Zamboni 38 - Tuesday: Room VI; Thursday and Friday: Room "Tibiletti".
Readings/Bibliography
1) W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica. Tre versioni (1936-39), ed. it. a cura di F. Desideri, Donzelli, Roma 2012 (for those who read in Italian: this edition exclusively).
2) W. Benjamin, Su alcuni motivi in Baudelaire, in Id., Aura e choc, Einaudi, Torino 2012, pp. 163-202.
3) Th.W. Adorno, Il carattere di feticcio della musica e la regressione nell'ascolto, in E. Donaggio (a cura di), La Scuola di Francoforte, Einaudi, Torino 2005, pp. 118-156.
4) Th.W. Adorno, Sulla popular music, Armando, Roma 2014, pp. 63-125.
Bibliographical suggestions:
- About Benjamin: G. Gilloch, Walter Benjamin, Il Mulino, Bologna 2008, pp. 9-40 e 225-322; F. Desideri & M. Baldi, Benjamin, Carocci, Roma 2010, pp. 107-166.
- About Adorno: A. Serravezza, Musica, filosofia e società in Th. W. Adorno, Dedalo, Bari 1976, pp. 106-144; S. Petrucciani, Introduzione a Adorno, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004, pp. 24-46.
- About the comparison between Benjamin and Adorno: E. Tavani, L’esperienza estetica come esperienza di immagini: Walter Benjamin e Theodor W. Adorno, "Aisthesis", 2/2010, pp. 163-179 (http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/11018/10390).Teaching methods
Traditional lectures and classroom presentations by students.
Assessment methods
The exam can be done in writing (with a report submitted by the student on the main contents of the course; to be agreed with the teacher) or in the traditional form of oral examination.
The oral examination will ensure the achievement of the following objectives:
- accurate knowledge of the texts examined;
- ability to analyze the most relevant concepts and give an appropriate interpretation;
- ability to establish motivated connections between the different parts of the program.
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Matteucci