Introduction to Aesthetics

INTRODUCTION TO AESTHETICS

PROGRAM

This course is structured in four parts – (1) aesthetics and sense perception; (2) speculative aesthetics; (3) poetics; and (4) experimental aesthetics – and analyses a series of aesthetic concepts and phenomena – such as aesthetic experience, aesthetic judgement, aisthesis, art, aura, beauty, emotion, empathy, imagination, perception, sublime, and taste – from both a speculative aesthetic perspective and an experimental aesthetic perspective. Whereas speculative aesthetics is the study of aesthetic concepts based on the use of pure reason, experimental aesthetics – a field of psychology founded by Gustav Theodor Fechner in the 19th century – is the study of aesthetic phenomena that takes into account empirical evidences from disciplines such as biology, experimental psychology, and neurophysiology.

Read more about the course here: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/outros-cursos/introduction-to-aesthetics/

The course will be entirely in English and is intended for undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. 

Teacher: Dr. Fabio Tononi

Deadline: 8 September 2023

COSTS

For information about the application process and costs, see: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/outros-cursos/introduction-to-aesthetics/

For further questions, contact [email protected]