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Winckelmann on Taste: A Somaesthetic Perspective - ART (Aesthetic Research Torino), Torino 9 marzo 2018

Pubblicato: Giovedì 1 marzo 2018

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The opening lecture of ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar will be delivered by Prof. Richard Shusterman on March 9th at 3 p.m.

Location: Università di Torino Aula Guzzo, Via Po 18 - Torino

Richard Shusterman
Winckelmann on Taste: A Somaesthetic Perspective

Three centuries after his birth, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) is still celebrated as the founder of archaeology and art history. His continued fame rests chiefly on his pioneer role in these fields and on his influence on such past masters as Goethe, Herder, Schiller, and Hegel. This lecture uses the approach of somaesthetics to argue for his more-than-historical relevance for contemporary aesthetic theory, despite the fact that his archaeological and art historical judgments have been largely discredited. Winckelmann's theoretical value today lies in his distinctively embodied approach to the cultivation of taste and the understanding of art, exemplifying central themes of contemporary somaesthetic theory.

Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at the Florida Atlantic University. Educated at Jerusalem and Oxford, he was chair of the Temple University Philosophy Department before coming to FAU in 2005. He has held academic appointments in Paris, Berlin, and Hiroshima and was awarded senior research Fulbright and NEH fellowships. His widely translated research covers many topics in the human and social sciences with particular emphasis on questions of philosophy, aesthetics, culture, language, identity, and embodiment. Authored books include T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (Columbia), Practicing Philosophy (Routledge), Performing Live (Cornell), Surface and Depth (Cornell), Pragmatist Aesthetics (Blackwell, 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, and translated into 12 languages), and most recently Body Consciousness (Cambridge). His non-technical essays have been published in the Nation and the Chronicle of Higher Education and in various art reviews and catalogues, such as artpress and Dokumenta. He directs the FAU Center for Body, Mind, and Culture ; his FAU webpage

ART (Aesthetic Research Torino) is a periodic philosophical seminar
organized by the Department of Philosophy and Educational
Sciences of the University of Turin and the PhD Program FINO. It is coordinated by Prof. Alessandro Bertinetto.

ART addresses different topics of the contemporary debate in
Aesthetics: philosophy of beauty, philosophy of the arts, theory of
sensory experience, philosophy of image and imagination, and history of aesthetics.

ART is supported by:
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulla Morfologia Francesco Moiso (CIM)
Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Logica, Linguaggio e Cognizione (LLC)
Centro Studi Arti della Modernità
Laboratorio di Ontologia (Labont)

ART is sponsored by:
Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE)
European Society for Aesthetics (ESA)