AESTHETICS

Course attendance (Units B and C) is recommended, together with study of course material, for those who have already taken the aesthetics exam in the 3-year course. Those who have not are asked to attend Unit A and the specialised Unit C.

The study of the philosophical discipline of aesthetics requires mastery of basic terminology and key concepts as well as familiarity with key writers and major trends in the history of philosophy.

Its two-fold theoretical-foundation and descriptive nature render aesthetics a “transversal” discipline which, by its very nature is open to interchange with other areas of knowledge.

This makes it possible to make “forays” , as required, into the areas of history, art criticism, psychology and sociology