Atmosphere and Aesthetics: A Plural Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783030249441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 342 str.

Tonino Griffero; Marco Tedeschini

Spis treści

Part I     Atmospheric turn?

1. Is There Such a Thing as an “Atmospheric Turn”? Instead of an Introduction

 

2. Atmospheric Spaces

 

3. Atmospheres and Moods: Two Modes of Being-with

               

4. Japanese Atmospheres: Of Sky, Wind, Breathing

               

Part II    Senses and Spaces

5. The Atmospheric Sense: Peripheral Perception and the Experience of Space

 

6. Atmosphere, Place, and Phenomenology: Depictions of London Place Settings in the Three Writings by British-African Novelist Doris Lessing

 

7. A Jungly Feeling: the Atmospheric Design of Zoos

 

8. Atmospheric Aeshteses: Law as Affect

               

9. The Lesser Existence of the Ambiance

 

Part III   Subjects and Communities

 

10.Atmosphere and Memory: A Phenomenological Approach

 

11. Atmospheres of Learning, Atmospheric Competence

               

12. Psychopathology, Atmospheres, and Clinical Transformations: Toward a Field-Based Clinical Practice

 

13. The Lightness of Atmospheric Communities

               

Part IV  Aesthetics and Art Theory

 

14. Smell and Atmosphere

               

15. Atmosphere and Taste, Individual and Environment

 

16. Renga and Atmosphere

 

17. The Atmosphere of Tones: Notions of Atmosphere in Music Scholarship, 1840-1930

 

18. Architecture as Musical Atmosphere

                

O autorze

Tonino Griffero is Full Professor of Aesthetics at University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Italy. 

 

Marco Tedeschini is post-doc at the Italian Institute for German Studies, Rome, Italy.

Blurb

This book provides a presentation of the concept of “atmosphere” in the realm of aesthetics. An “atmosphere” is meant to be an emotional space. Such idea of “atmosphere” has been more and more subsumed by human and social sciences in the last twenty years, thereby becoming a technical notion. In many fields of the Humanities, affective life has been reassessed as a proper tool to understand the human being, and is now considered crucial. In this context, the link between atmospheres and aesthetics becomes decisive. Nowadays, aesthetics is no longer only a theory of art, but has recovered its original vocation: to be a general theory of perception conceived of as an ordinary experience of pre-logical character. In its four parts (Atmospheric turn?, Senses and Spaces, Subjects and Communities, Aesthetics and Art Theory), this volume discusses whether atmospheres could take the prominent and paradigmatic position previously held by art in order to make sense of such sensible experience of the world.