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Editor’s Introduction: Rediscovering Early Phenomenological Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Harri Mäcklin
Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the early phases of the phenomenological movement. However, early phenomenological aesthetics has so far received very little attention in the cur...
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Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Color, Light, and the Irreality of the Artwork Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Irene Breuer
In her article “Die Irrealität des Kunstwerkes,” first published in 1938, Hedwig Conrad-Martius delves into the question of the artistic representation of the real reality of the world, which basic...
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The Layers of Aesthetic Experience: A Comparison Between Fritz Kaufmann and Ernst Cassirer Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Elio Antonucci
The article compares Fritz Kaufmann and Ernst Cassirer’s conceptions of aesthetics, focusing in particular on their characterisation of the experience of apprehension of art objects. Firstly, analy...
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The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Consciousness and Phantasy: Working with Husserl Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Fotini Vassiliou
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 10, No. 2, 2023)
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Phenomenology as an Abortive Science of Art: Two Contexts of Early Phenomenological Aesthetics (Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft and GAChN) Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Patrick Flack
This article critically examines the usual characterisation of aesthetics as a fragmented, marginal or secondary field within phenomenology. The author argues in particular that phenomenological ae...
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“Quite Artificial, Awkward, and Unnecessarily Neologistic”: Early Phenomenology and Psychology Arguing About the Fundamentals of Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Thomas Petraschka
As phenomenology rose to prominence at the beginning of the 20th century, several aestheticians tried to establish the Husserlian method of “phenomenological reduction” in the field of aesthetics. ...
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Art, Affectivity, and Aesthetic Value: Geiger on the Role of Emotions in Aesthetic Appreciation Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
This paper explores Moritz Geiger’s work on the role of emotions in aesthetic appreciation and shows its potential for contemporary research. Drawing on the main tenets of Geiger’s phenomenological...
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Consummate Phenomena: Oskar Becker’s “Hyperontological” Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Benjamin Brewer
This essay reconstructs Oskar Becker’s idiosyncratic conception of aesthetics and its importance for phenomenology. For Becker, the aesthetic is not simply one type of phenomenon among others; rath...
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Aesthetic Experience and Empathy in Vasily Sesemann’s Phenomenological Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Dalius Jonkus
Vasily Sesemann’s aesthetics is a transcendental philosophy that seeks to answer the question of how an experience of beauty is possible. Sesemann insists that aesthetics should focus on the study ...
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Seeing Serially: Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology Encountering Serial Drawing Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Joe Graham
Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology prioritises aesthetics as first philosophy, and finds increasing interest from those working across art, architecture and the humanities in general. This ar...
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Appropriating the Neoliberal City: Populism, Post-Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Problematic of the “World” Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Sebastiaan Bierema
In the work of Ernesto Laclau, populism is treated as a hegemonic challenge. Hegemony describes the usurpation of the image of society as a totality by a particular and underdetermined social imagi...
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Philosophy and the Art of Writing Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Uku Tooming
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 10, No. 1, 2023)
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Witty Winds: Japanese Contributions to a Phenomenology of Laughter and Irony Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Lorenzo Marinucci
This paper explores philosophically the experiences of laughter and irony, focusing on Japanese sources but with a cross-cultural outlook. I ask whether globally unfavorable attitudes towards the c...
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The Event/Machine of Neural Machine Translation? Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Arnaud Regnauld
ABSTRACT The present paper purports to question the status of machine translation as a technique, or even as a technology. The use of new technologies, and more particularly neural machine translation is problematic, because the operating mode of machine translation software is a machinic language processing that relies on the harvesting of potentially infinite databases to feed an artificial intelligence
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Data as Expression Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Jaana Okulov
ABSTRACT In machine learning literature, the concept of expression is seldom addressed as a general term in relation to information construction and data. The term more often carries a narrower meaning and refers to human bodily, emotional, or artistic dimensions that are recorded to train a model. However, this paper discusses a view in which expression is understood as any human sensory realm that
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Compression and Noise Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 M. Curtis Allen
ABSTRACT Compression is an essential technique used across diverse information systems, one in which supposedly redundant or superfluous information is minimized or eliminated in order to make the storage, transmission, or reception of other information more legible or efficient. Compression is involved in everything from computer data storage (encoding) and efficient computational processes (floating
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Prediction Promises: Towards a Metaphorology of Artificial Intelligence Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Leonie A. Möck
ABSTRACT Metaphors are a basic element of scientific language. In the context of Artificial Intelligence, metaphors facilitate the communication between experts and the public, as well as between scientists and engineers. Reimagining AI, here understood as a programmatic call, firstly requires us to be aware of the images we think with. Therefore, in this paper, I develop a claim for a hermeneutic
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Theoretical and Practical Paralogisms of Digital Immortality Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Joel White
ABSTRACT Modern and contemporary transhumanism has seen a recent rise in academic and popular relevance; specific naïve metaphysical ideas, such as immortality, have returned with this rise. This article refrains from any ethical or political assessment of transhumanism. Still, it critiques the exact metaphysical or idealistic nature of transhumanism and its pursuit of digital immortality: the idea
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The Aesthetics of Human-Machine Interaction: Generative Textuality in Hello Games’s No Man’s Sky Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Justin Carpenter
ABSTRACT Generative design is the artistic practice where an artist uses external systems (rules, algorithms, organic processes) to complete an artwork. Commonly utilized in video game design, generative design suggests an aesthetics of human-machine interaction, as machine decision-making partially shapes the experience of the player. In generative games, then, the relationship between designer, system
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Future Imaginings in Art and Artificial Intelligence Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Andreia Machado Oliveira
ABSTRACT In considering future imaginings of art and Artificial Intelligence (AI), we point out two key premises to our approach: the human-machine relation without opposition between the two terms; and the implications of artificial intelligence within practice-led art practices. According to Gilbert Simondon, there is a biological and technological evolution that does not separate nature and technics
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Topographic Algorithms: Reimagining Environmental Sensing and Representation Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Richard A Carter
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2022)
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Creative Agents: Rethinking Agency and Creativity in Human and Artificial Systems Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Caterina Moruzzi
ABSTRACT While the notions of creativity and agency have each received considerable attention in the literature on computational systems, the connections between these two concepts have rarely been addressed. In this paper, I contribute to this debate by discussing the results of an online questionnaire aimed at testing the interactions between the attribution of agency and creativity to human and
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Reimagining AI: Introduction Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Dominic Smith, Natasha Lushetich, Tina Röck, Edzia Carvalho, Kenny Lewis, Gabriele Schweikert
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2022)
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What Is the Object of Art? Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Andrew Benjamin
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is establish the difference between aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Part of the argument is that only a philosophy of art can give an adequate philosophical account of works of art. The argument is advanced drawing on the writings of Immanuel Kant and Gunter Figal.
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Seeing The Gardener Vallier: Cézanne and Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics of Doubt Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Shin Young Park
ABSTRACT This article looks closely at one of Paul Cézanne’s portraits of Vallier painted the last year of his life to examine how his (“fugitive”) vision works through his use of colors. The French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who in his phenomenology views the body as the primary locus of having and therefore knowing the world, emphasizes the vital role of the body of the artist that must be
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Eros and Sensation: Art and Aesthetics in Emmanuel Levinas’s Prison Notebooks Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jussi Pentikäinen
ABSTRACT The release of Emmanuel Levinas’s Prison Notebooks (Carnets de captivité) as a part of the first tome of his collected works has further illuminated the extent of the philosopher’s preoccupation with art, especially literature. Levinas’s own literary efforts have been well documented, but less attention has been paid to the relationship between the Prison Notebooks and Levinas’s early philosophy
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Terror at the Heart of Sleep – Night Terrors, Nancy, and Phenomenology Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Patrick Simon Moffett Levy
ABSTRACT Sleep is soothing, silent, and serene, until it is not. Sleep is often troubled, disturbed, or even “disordered” as the medical literature describes it. This paper begins from an extreme form of such disturbance—terrified sleep. Night terrors (pavor nocturnus), in which sleep is violently interrupted, offer important insights into sleep and the methods by which it is studied. The sanitising
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The “Social” in the Social Turn: Empathy, Bias, and Participatory Art Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Harry Drummond
ABSTRACT Aesthetics and social cognition are two disciplines rarely merged, despite the penetration of artworks into social, moral, and political concerns. In particular, participatory artworks involve direct social interaction and perception, and are more often than not motivated by, and aim towards, ethico-political ends. In the following, I fuse considerations aesthetic with considerations intersubjective
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Touch: Recovering our Most Vital Sense Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-04-27 John P. Manoussakis
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2022)
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On the Lateral Readings of Fiction: Anti-Existentialism in Camus’ Stranger Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Frank Chouraqui
ABSTRACT This paper pursues three goals: First, to develop a lateral reading of Camus’ Stranger. A lateral reading is characterized by the displacement of the central conflict. In the case of The Stranger, I argue that the central conflict in the novel lies in the relation between the author and the protagonist, not, as direct readings would have it, in the relation between the protagonist and his
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“The Appearance that Becomes an Image”. Review of Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Patrick Eldridge
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 8, No. 2, 2021)
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Heidegger’s Fugue: Musicality and the Heraclitus Lectures Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-22 James M. Kopf
ABSTRACT Martin Heidegger rarely explicitly dealt with the topic of music. The Heraclitus lectures, delivered in 1943 and 1944, offer a notable exception. Heidegger here speaks openly of the “Lied der Erde” (“Earth’s song”). Most intriguing, perhaps, though, is the use of Fügung in relation to ἁρμονία (harmonia), which he links to understanding φὑσις (physis; the “emerging” character of the world)
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The Ruins Lesson. Meaning and Material in Western Culture Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Zoltán Somhegyi
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2021)
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Ingarden, Dufrenne, and the Passivity of Aesthetic Experience Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Harri Mäcklin
ABSTRACT Recent phenomenological research has picked up on the old claim that sometimes artworks seem to take possession of the perceiver. Simon Høffding and Tone Roald have argued that Edmund Husserl’s notion of passive synthesis offers significant explanatory force in understanding aesthetic experiences where the artwork exhibits signs of such agency. Husserlian passivity refers to the non-egoic
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Gestures, Attunements and Atmospheres: On Photography and Urban Space Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Nélio Rodrigues Conceição
ABSTRACT Developed through a series of conceptual analyses (Edmund Husserl, Vilém Flusser, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Walter Benjamin) and case studies (Fernando Lopes’s Belarmino and Jeff Wall’s Mimic), this article delves into the relationship between gesture, attunement and atmosphere and how it unfolds in photographic works dealing with urban space. The first section focuses on the role played by
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The Ghost of Remembrance Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Dror Pimentel
ABSTRACT In a quest after the essence of memory, a crucial distinction is made between the notions of memory and remembrance, following Plato’s distinction between mneme (memory) and hypomnesis (archive). The article’s main argument is that memory has to do with the technical aspect of life, while remembrance has to do with what we live for. This is because the unwilled event of remembrance, which
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Stiegler’s Rigour: Metaphors for a Critical Continental Philosophy of Technology Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Dominic Smith
ABSTRACT This essay claims that Stiegler’s sense of metaphor gives his work an overlooked rigour. Part one argues that La Faute d’Epiméthée’s key claim (that technics is philosophy’s “unthought”) opens an excess of potential that threatens to overwhelm Stiegler’s work. Part two looks at two metaphors (the pharmakon and organ). Part three argues that a focus on Stiegler’s technique of metaphor mitigates
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The Phenomenology of the Body Schema and Contemporary Dance Practice: The Example of “Gaga” Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Anna Petronella Foultier
ABSTRACT In recent years, the notion of the body schema has been widely discussed, in particular in fields connecting philosophy, cognitive science, and dance studies, as it seems to have bearing across disciplines in a fruitful way. A main source in this literature is Shaun Gallagher’s distinction between the body schema—the “pre-noetic” conditions of bodily performance—and the body image—the body
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Beyond the Performer: Gadamer, Pareyson, and the Hermeneutics of Improvised Musical Performance Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Sam McAuliffe
ABSTRACT Philosophical hermeneutics is underrepresented in the literature on music performance. Given the shift from Cartesian subjectivism to anti-subjectivism in the contemporary literature on improvised musical performance, it is somewhat surprising that hermeneutics does not figure more prominently. Since hermeneutics is characterized by a dialectical to-and-fro—the hermeneutical conversation—between
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Representing and Embodying a Peripheral City’s Place in the World Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Tea Lobo
ABSTRACT In an increasingly globalizing world, the aesthetics of Dubai have become potentially available even for impoverished, peripheral cities such as Belgrade. With the explicit rhetoric of finally achieving a “global profile” for the city, the Serbian government has hired an Emirati company to build a “world city” in a centrally located district of Belgrade. The rationale for the development is
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Negativity in the Heart of Nature: A Study of Art of Vincent Van Gogh through Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Marina Marren
ABSTRACT The focus of this essay is the art of Vincent van Gogh and the way in which van Gogh’s understanding of nature informs his landscape painting. Van Gogh’s descriptions of the relationship between nature and his art betray certain humanist views that invest nature with anthropomorphic elements. Van Gogh seeks to subdue nature in order to uncover its essence and divulge its inner truth. I do
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The Eroticism of Landscape in Contemporary Contemplative Cinema Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Rosine Bénard O’Kelly
ABSTRACT This article questions how contemplative contemporary cinema “sexualize” the landscapes. Through the filmography of four directors, Abbas Kiarostami, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lars von Trier and Bruno Dumont, the relationships between nature and human body are highlighted. Furthermore, based on the “eroticism” notion developed by Georges Bataille, our study tries to emphasize how these relationships
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Review: John Sallis’ Songs of Nature, on Paintings Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Rudi Capra
(2020). Review: John Sallis’ Songs of Nature, on Paintings. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Vol. 7, Philosophy and Landscape East and West, pp. 173-175.
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Review: Francois Jullien’s Living off Landscape, or the Unthought of in Reason Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Ralf Müller
(2020). Review: Francois Jullien’s Living off Landscape, or the Unthought of in Reason. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Vol. 7, Philosophy and Landscape East and West, pp. 176-182.
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Automating Art: Gilbert Simondon and the Possibility of Independently Creative Machines Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Michael Haworth
(2020). Automating Art: Gilbert Simondon and the Possibility of Independently Creative Machines. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 17-32.
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Out of the experience of poetry Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Richard Rojcewicz
ABSTRACT This contribution to phenomenological aesthetics takes inspiration from Martin Heidegger’s idea that poetry arises out of the experience of thinking and thinking out of the experience of poetry. The mutual nourishment of philosophy and poetry is put into practice here through a presentation of three poems and the reflections they provoke. The poems are the work of a contemporary Lithuanian-American
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Aesthetic Justice Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Magdalena Wisniowska
ABSTRACT In his late essay “To Have Done With Judgment” Gilles Deleuze puts forward an alternative aesthetics to those based within the doctrine of judgment. He argues that to do justice to the work of art, one must recognise the creation of the new modes of existence in the work to come. This essay aims to deepen the understanding of Deleuze’s concept of the “work to come” by going against the grain
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Early Cubism, Tactility, and Existential Spatiality Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Dimitri Ginev
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to draw important parallels between the way in which configured pictorial practices of early Cubism interpreted the idea of tactile space and the phenomenological concept of existential spatiality. It is argued that in dispensing with the “illusion of perspectival space” and deconstructing geometrical perspective, several Cubist artists developed a position of multi-perspectival
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Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Petr Osolsobě
(2020). Aesthetics. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 85-87.
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Intimate Strangeness: Gadamer on Celan, Dialogue, and the Other Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Daniel L. Tate
(2020). Intimate Strangeness: Gadamer on Celan, Dialogue, and the Other. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-15.
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The Unconscious Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-07-16 Tanehisa Otabe
ABSTRACT Rudolf Eisler’s Dictionary of Philosophical Concepts (2nd edition, 1904) and James Mark Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (new edition, 1920) show that, until the first two decades of the 20th century, The Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869) by Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906) defined the meaning of the expression “the unconscious.” This special volume will explore how the
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The Body as a Form of the Unconscious: Valéry and Merleau-Ponty, Critics of Freud Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Masanori Tsukamoto
ABSTRACT The notion of the unconscious resulted in a reversal of optics concerning the evidence of consciousness, and the split which Freud created in the analysis of mental activities elicited many reactions. Some French writers attempted to develop concepts with the ambition of competing with the unconscious. We are interested here in the notion of implex that Valéry elaborated in L’Idée fixe (1932)
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Cultural Gap, Mental Crevice, and Creative Imagination: Vision, Analogy, and Memory in Cross-Cultural Chiasms Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-06-09 Shigemi Inaga
ABSTRACT This paper aims at investigating how the cross-cultural chasm can be meaningfully connected with the discussion on creativity and imagination. In order to examine cross-cultural creativity and imagination, several basic assumptions in the Western tradition must be reexamined and put into question. To begin with, the translatability and equivalence of the notions of “creation” and “imagination”
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Diagnostic Concepts of the Unconscious as a Foundation of Romanticist Identity: Maine de Biran’s Psycho-Physiological and Psycho-Pathological Self-Investigations Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Manfred Milz
ABSTRACT The foundations of psychoanalysis in the German idealist concepts of the reflexive human self have been the subject of detailed investigations devoted to the intertwined processes of introspection, consciousness, and the unconscious. Much less consideration has been given to the contemporary French spiritualist philosopher Maine de Biran (1766–1824), whose physiologically-oriented philosophical
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Symbolic Pregnance, Concrescence, and the Unconscious: E. Cassirer and S. Langer Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-05-28 Carole Maigné
ABSTRACT This paper questions the apparent silenc of Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms on the unconscious, in its double sense of the psychic structure and of the description of the imperceptible. Although Cassirer is engaged in a very fine phenomenological analysis of our experience of the world, under the prism of a critic of culture, and although he does not believe in the evidence of the
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The Leibnizian breakthrough: on Rosemary Sponner Sand’s The Unconscious Without Freud, Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, 188 pp., $100. ISBN: 978-1442231733 Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-05-07 Sean J. McGrath
(2019). The Leibnizian breakthrough: on Rosemary Sponner Sand’s The Unconscious Without Freud, Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, 188 pp., $100. ISBN: 978-1442231733. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Vol. 6, The Unconscious, pp. 195-202.
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The Creativity of the Hand Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-05-07 Gunter Gebauer
ABSTRACT In this article I argue that, with the liberation of the hand from the tasks of locomotion in human evolution, unconscious use of the hands begins to create cultural forms. The first feature of the hands is its openness to the world. The second feature is its mediation between things and the body of which it is a part. The third feature is its self-referentiality. By touching, by giving form
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The Unconscious Grounds of Aesthetic Experience Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2020-05-07 James Kirwan
ABSTRACT Aesthetic experience is an emotional response to the spontaneous interpretation of an object/situation as symbolic of either the fulfilment of an impossible but inalienable desire (positive aesthetic experience) or the inescapability of that to which we are ineluctably averse (negative aesthetic experience). In both cases it is an emotional response to situations for which there is no appropriate
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Art, Philosophy and the Connectivity of Concepts: Ricoeur and Deleuze and Guattari Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Clive Cazeaux
ABSTRACT Concepts are traditionally pictured as discrete containers that bring together objects or qualities based on the possession of shared, uniform properties. This paper focuses on a contrasting notion of the concept which holds that concepts are defined by their capacity to reach out and connect with other concepts. Two theories in recent continental philosophy maintain this view: one from Ricoeur
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Showing Off! A Philosophy of Image Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Robert Clarke
Jorella Andrews’ Showing Off! A Philosophy of Image is a lively, idiosyncratic account of the experiential power images can have in revealing truths. It possesses that rare quality in books on this subject—accessibility—for it is readable and gives a strong sense that the author is energetically committed to her chosen sources and to art practitioners. Those sources range across a broad territory of