Image, Language, Figure: Forms and Modes of Mediation

The PhD Course "Image, Language, Figure. Forms and modes of mediation' aims to provide high-level knowledge and skills in fundamental and applied research in the field of philosophy humanities and law, stimulating dialogue between aesthetics, philosophy of language, semiotics, visual culture studies, media theories and legal inclusive studies. Its main focus is the investigation of the Image/Language/Figure triad, which refers to the fundamental mediating devices between human beings and the world and to the interactions among human beings. Of these mediation devices, the PhD aims to explore theoretical, methodological and epistemological models, as well as their structurally mediated nature, along five axes corresponding to as many curricula: A. Aesthetics; B. Semiotics; C. Philosophy of languages; D. Visual culture and media theory; E. Image, language and social inclusion.