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The members of the Department run the academic research and teaching activity in the field of: the history of aesthetics (esp. the ancient and medieval aesthetics, the Renaissance art theory/ aesthetics of disegno, and the modern German aesthetics); contemporary aesthetic thought and movements (esp. aesthetic phenomenology, analytic aesthetics, structuralism, philosophy of literature and performative arts, Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and new empirical and environmental trends in aesthetics).

The most actual topics concern the problem of image, aesthetic imagination and perception, along with visual thinking and the questions of metacriticism.

The researchers are focused on the analysis, interpretation and critique of both traditional as new media of art, such as painting and sculpture, new media (tech- and bio-art), photography, performance and theatre. They join their academic activity with critical writing and literary criticism (publishing in aesthetic, artistic and literary journals) and stay in a mutual artistic-scientific cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw since over the decade. In 2018 they inaugurated a series of international transdisciplinary aesthetic seminars on art, nature and aesthetic imagery (“Aesthetics and Nature”; “Expanding the Limits of Philosophy, Arts and Aesthetics”).