COMMUNICATION AESTHETICS
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1. a general culture acquired during a five-year high school course;
2. a generic interest in culture in its various social manifestations, from the historical and sociological approach to the more general problems of the world of communication.
Learning will be verified through an oral test.
The oral exam consists of a presentation of the topics covered within the course and will aim to ascertain the preparation of the candidate on the texts in question and their ability to give a critical interpretation.
The following will be evaluated:
• the lexical correctness of the exposure (5 points);
• the correctness of the conceptual analyzes carried out on the texts (10 points);
• the acquisition of an effective learning methodology (5 points);
• critical capacity and autonomy of the student (10 points).
The course has an interdisciplinary approach, linking Aesthetics, philosophy of language, history and human sciences. The aim is to provide in-depth information on the problem of communication and the encounter between civilizations that are completely unknown to each other, as well as those without linguistic mediations, such as the societies of pre-Columbian America and the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th Century. The course will have as qualifying points:
1. the interpretation of the Indios by the Europeans;
2. the interpretation of the Europeans by the vanquished;
3. the construction of the mythologems by both;
4. non-verbal cultural exchanges.
The learning technique includes the exposition and interpretation of a series of interdiscilinar texts of philosophical, historical, sociological and anthropological thought. These works will be the basis for activating the ability to understand the processes of construction of the image of the world, in the sphere of the arts and literature, but also of the construction of social identity on the part of the protagonists of knowledge in Western culture. Specifically, students will have to demonstrate that they are able to critically analyze and interpret the texts in light of what they have learned within the course.
They will be evaluated:
1. the ability to use the specific languages of the problem of forgery;
2. the relationship modalities and the interdisciplinary dimension of knowledge;
3. the relationship between the aesthetic dimension and the formation of individual and social subjectivity in the contemporary.
The course is developed along three didactic and formative lines of reference that foresee:
• the analysis of the events that, from 1492 (Colombo's journey) to 1598 (death of the sovereign Philip II), determine the conquest and dissolution of the pre-Columbian kingdoms Maia, Aztecs and Inca (institutional part, 16 hours);
• The interpretation of these events by historians, theologians and jurists (16 hours);
• Other forms of non-verbal exchange - food, bacteria between Europeans and Amerindians (16 hours).
Texts used during the course (3 chosen for the exam) provisional list:
A text of your choice for each of points A, B, C. (Total 3 texts)
A.
P. DallaVigna, L’America, una storia inventata. Navigatori, conquistadores, sovrani, missionari e “indiani”, di prossima pubblicazione 2019.
T. Todorov (1982), La conquista dell’America. Il problema dell’“altro”, Einaudi, Torino 1984.
S. Greenblatt (1991), Meraviglia e possesso. Lo stupore di fronte al Nuovo Mondo, il Mulino, Bologna 1994.
B.
C. Colombo, I diari di bordo, a c. di M.L. Fagioli, Studio Tesi, Pordenone 1992.
Colombo, Vespucci, Verazzano, Alla scoperta dell’America, Ghibli, Milano 2019.
S. de Madariaga (1940), Cristoforo Colombo, Res Gestae, Milano 2015, p. 231.
G. Baudot (1981), La vita quotidiana nell’America latina ai tempi di Filippo II, Rizzoli, Milano 1996.
H. Cortéz (1519-41), La conquista del Messico, Rizzoli 1997.
C.
V.W. von Hagen, Eldorado. Le tragiche vicende delle spedizioni europee del XVI Secolo che andarono alla ricerca del mitico Uomo d’oro, Res Gestae, Milano 2014.
Cfr. Ch. Duverger, Il fiore letale. L’economia del sacrificio Azteco, Ghibli, Milano 2014.
S. Menna, Gonzalo Guerrero e la frontiera dell’identità, Jouvence, Milano 2018, p. 69.
W.H. Prescott (1843), La conquista del Messico, Einudi, Torino 1958.
B. de las Casas, Brevissima relazione della distruzione delle Indie, Mondadori, Milano 1987.
The activities will take place through lessons. The professor will illustrate the contents of the course by requesting the interactive participation of the students through interventions, questions and reflections, in a close dialectical comparison between professor and student.
By appointment via e-mail (pierre.dallavigna@uninsubria.it) or telephone contact (mobile 347 4254976).
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