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.