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The concept of philosophy and the subject of “aesthetics”. Investigation of forms as a source of existential meanings, but also creation of forms as a consequence of the philosophical foundations of societies. Historical Consideration: Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, Medieval Thought and Art, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl, Heidegger. Aesthetics from Baumgarten to the modern era. Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bachelard. Aesthetic theorems. Western Modernity and contemporary developments and prospects.
Introduction to the subject of philosophy. Short historical review. Relations between religion and philosophy. Pre-modern and Modern period.The intertemporal role of Art. The imaginary/philosophical foundations of man and societies. Relations between man, space and form. The greek proposal and its evolution. The medieval times. Introduction to Modernity: the period up to the 18th century. 18th century and the introduction of “Aesthetics” as a branch of philosophy. Romanticism as fundamental deviation from modernity. Rupture with the past: 20th century, New Art and Modernism. Expressionism, Surrealism and “Art Brut” (outsider art). The modern greek proposal and the 30s generation. New developments: postmodernism, deconstruction. Towards a post-modern epoch: new wordview and new view of reality