Interuniversity Centre of Symbolic Studies

The theoretical motivations behind the initiative - launched in 2013 - take their cue from a desire to analyse the modern twist to an ancient problem, which runs through the entirety of philosophical reflection. The symbolic does not only belong, on one hand, to the area of the religious or, more precisely, to the sacred and, on the other, to that of aesthetics, but instead covers many areas of knowledge, showing itself to cross-cut between humanistic and scientific studies. The list, albeit only exemplary and incomplete, of the fields in which it is the subject of research is vast: philosophical (in various forms: theoretical, aesthetic, historical, philosophical, moral, philosophy of language), political, sociological, juridical, anthropological - cultural, paleoanthropological, psychological and psychoanalytic, pedagogical, religionistic, theological, mathematical, in cognitive sciences, in neurosciences, in architecture and urban planning, and in visual sciences.

DISUM Contact Person

• prof. Ioland Poma