First chapter: the meaning of images in ancient Egyptian thought. The realtionship between images and signs in hieroglyphic writing. The "magic realism" of Egyptian images. Second chapter: hieroglyphic thinking in the Reinaissance. Symbolic values of epigraphic Egyptian writing and the Ars memoriae in Plato, Giordano Bruno, Giambattista Della Porta and Ralph Cudworth. Renaissance images of silence. Third chapter: hieroglyphs as heuristic instruments of aesthetic knowledge. Francis Bacon and Real Characters. Hieroglyphs as "universal fantastici" in Vico's Scienza nuova : an analysis of the first two books. Mythical thought as a form of thinking by images. Fourth chapter: the idea of gesture in the early 18. century's aesthetic culture. Iconism and obscurity in "expressive hieroglyphs" by Diderot. Closing remarks. Bibliography.

Geroglifici fantastici. Il mito “estetico” dell’Egitto e il “pensare per immagini” / M. Bellini ; tutor: M. Mazzocut-Mis, coordinatore: P. Casalegno. DIPARTIMENTO DI FILOSOFIA, 2008 Jan 18. 20. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2006/2007.

Geroglifici fantastici. Il mito “estetico” dell’Egitto e il “pensare per immagini”

M. Bellini
2008

Abstract

First chapter: the meaning of images in ancient Egyptian thought. The realtionship between images and signs in hieroglyphic writing. The "magic realism" of Egyptian images. Second chapter: hieroglyphic thinking in the Reinaissance. Symbolic values of epigraphic Egyptian writing and the Ars memoriae in Plato, Giordano Bruno, Giambattista Della Porta and Ralph Cudworth. Renaissance images of silence. Third chapter: hieroglyphs as heuristic instruments of aesthetic knowledge. Francis Bacon and Real Characters. Hieroglyphs as "universal fantastici" in Vico's Scienza nuova : an analysis of the first two books. Mythical thought as a form of thinking by images. Fourth chapter: the idea of gesture in the early 18. century's aesthetic culture. Iconism and obscurity in "expressive hieroglyphs" by Diderot. Closing remarks. Bibliography.
18-gen-2008
Aesthetics ; Renaissance ; Enlightenment ; Hieroglyphs ; Ancient Egyptian thought
Settore M-FIL/04 - Estetica
MAZZOCUT-MIS, MADDALENA
CASALEGNO, PAOLO STEFANO
Doctoral Thesis
Geroglifici fantastici. Il mito “estetico” dell’Egitto e il “pensare per immagini” / M. Bellini ; tutor: M. Mazzocut-Mis, coordinatore: P. Casalegno. DIPARTIMENTO DI FILOSOFIA, 2008 Jan 18. 20. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2006/2007.
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