What is landscape? Paolo D'Angelo, philosopher and professor of aesthetics, takes us on a journey through the main philosophical answers to this question: the one that identifies the landscape with the view and its pictorial representation; the one that equates it to the environment and thinks it is possible to describe it in scientific terms; the one that finds in the landscape an inseparable bond of nature and history; the one that understands it as the fruit of the care of the territory by its inhabitants and will finally come to propose an idea of the landscape as an aesthetic identity of places.
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Professor at the University of Roma Tre, Paolo D'Angelo is vice-president of the Italian Society of Aesthetics, member of the Scientific Committee of German Culture and of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His activity includes numerous national conferences and international collaborations which have involved conferences and universities such as Paris I La Sorbonne and the Studium Generale in Mainz. Among his areas of interest are environmental aesthetics, German philosophy, contemporary Italian philosophy, the aesthetics of visual arts, which have materialized in numerous publications. Among these: Forme letterarie della filosofia, Carocci 2012, Estetica, Laterza 2011, Filosofia del paesaggio, Quodlibet 2010; Estetica e paesaggio, Il Mulino 2009; L’estetica italiana del Novecento, Laterza 2007.
Manuel Orazi (Macerata, 1974) trained as an architectural and city historian in Venice. He is a contract professor of theories of contemporary architecture at the faculties of architecture of Ascoli Piceno and Cesena. He works for the Quodlibet publishing house, where he is a press agent and deals with architecture titles, and collaborates with some newspapers and magazines including "Abitare" and "Log". Since 2011 he has been part of the scientific committee of Festarch International Architecture Festival of Perugia.