ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar 

 

Paolo Furia

(University of Turin)

December, 20. h. 3:20 pm

 

 

 

Sala incontri 1, Biblioteca di Filosofia, Palazzo Nuovo

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Online

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The substantivity of landscape. Learning from the Andes?

 

In this talk, I will offer some arguments with a view to overcoming an "aestheticized" conception of landscape, which has been prevalent particularly in European and, to some extent, North American philosophical aesthetics. The main feature of such conception is the reduction of the concept of landscape to a construct based on the isolation of the aesthetic properties of a given portion of space from other kinds of properties, such as geographical, political or ecological ones. I will devote the first part of the talk to reconstructing the main pillars of the "aestheticized" conception of landscape, relying on the influential essay by Joachim Ritter (1963) and the criteria identified by Augustin Berque for the identification of so-called "landscape cultures" (2008). In the second part I will focus on some characteristics of the Andean landscape, referring as much to a field experience lived as part of a visiting period at the Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica and the Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino, as to the philosophical, anthropological and geographical debate around the concept of landscape in the Andean "cosmovision." In the third and last part I will show how the "aestheticized" conception of landscape is inadequate to understand the landscape culture of the Andean world, in which the aesthetic function, far from being denied, is nonetheless found integrated with other dimensions of spatial reality, such as geographical, ethico-political and ecological. Of such insertion of the aesthetic into the ethical and ecological sphere I will try to show, in conclusion, the intimate urgency in the time of the Anthropocene.

Paolo Furia is researcher in aesthetics at the Department of Humanities, University of Turin. His research focuses are philosophy of geography, environmental aesthetics and philosophical hermeneutics. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 and has published articles in Italian, English and French and three monographs: Rifiuto, Altrove e Utopia, Mimesis, 2019; Estetica e geografia, Mimesis 2020; Spesamento. Esperienza estetico-geografica, Meltemi 2023. He is a member of the Italian Society of Aesthetics, the Luigi Pareyson Study Center and the Alumni Association du Fonds Ricoeur. He is one of the organizers of the ART - Aesthetics Research Torino seminar and teaches at the Bachelor of Arts in Communication Sciences (UNITO), the new Master of Arts in Cultural Heritage (UNITO) and the Unidee Academy of Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto. He was recently a one-month visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad de Lima and is among the animators of the convention between UNITO and the Andean universities UNH (Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica) and UDEA (Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino).

 

ART (Aesthetics 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.

 

Coordinator:

Prof. Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin). 

 

Members:

Prof. Carlo Serra (University of Turin/University of Calabria)

Prof.ssa Serena Feloj (University of Pavia)

Dr. Alberto Martinengo (University of Turin)

Dr. Paolo Furia (University of Turin)

Dr. Jacopo Frascaroli (University of Turin)

Dr. Lisa Giombini (University Rome 3)

Dr. Gregorio Tenti (University of Turin)

Dr. Amalia Salvestrini (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi FIlosofici, Naples)

Dr. Francesca Monateri (Pisa, Scuola Normale)

Dr. Francesca Perotto (FINO)

Dr. Ivan Quartesan (FINO)

Dr. Sofia Boz (University of Padova)

Dr. Leonardo Pietropaolo (University of Turin)

Dr. Luisa Sampugnaro (University of Turin)

Dr. Nicola Davide Angerame (Turin)

 

 

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 Studi Arti della Modernità

Centro Studi Filosofico-religiosi "Luigi Pareyson"

 

ART is sponsored by: 

Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE) 
European Society for Aesthetics (ESA)