La tesi affronta il tema del gusto dolce, proponendo un’indagine filosofica che si sviluppa, al tempo stesso, attraverso un approccio transdisciplinare, capace di esplorarne le dimensioni scientifiche, estetiche e culturali. Tradizionalmente relegato a mera conclusione conviviale, il dolce viene qui assunto non come epilogo, ma come incipit di una riflessione che mira a restituirgli una … …read more
This thesis explores the intertwining narratives of wine, spirits, and drunkenness in art history, examining the cultural, social, and symbolic significance of these elements. In this case, I have examined the presentation of wine, spirits, and drunkenness in art in two significant art periods: the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century and late 19th/early … …read more
A creative journey to the margins of being This thesis is a philosophical/auto-ethnographic/artistic inquiry into the beneficial aspects of farming, in the light of individualisation and commodification of society, as I show it to be a marginal experience of both identity and body. The following philosophers with respective concepts are used: Tim Ingold and … …read more
Approaching the Aesthetic Sensibility and Epistemology of An Artisan-Farmer and its Cosmogonic Possibilities The two central problematics of this thesis are the historical marginalisation of artisanal knowledge and practices, and the increasingly endemic crisis of reality which is being experienced in Western modernity. I argue that these two seemingly distant problems are in fact symptoms … …read more