Phenomenology and the Arts: Logos and Aisthesis

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-30868-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 109, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 359 g

Reihe: Contributions to Phenomenology

This volume examines the great varieties of artistic experience from first hand phenomenological descriptions. It features detailed and concrete analyses which provides readers with in-depth insights into each specific domain of artistic experience. Coverage includes phenomenological elucidation of the aesthetic attitude, the power of imagination, and the logic of sensibility. The essays also detail concrete phenomenological analyses of aesthetic experiences in poetry, painting, photography, drama, architecture, and urban aesthetics.

The book contains essays from "Logos and Aisthesis: Phenomenology and the Arts," an international conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It brings together a team of top scholars from both the East and the West and offers readers a global perspective on this interesting topic. These innovative, yet accessible, essays, will benefit students and researchers in philosophy, aesthetics, the arts, and the humanities. They will also beof interest to specialists in phenomenology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nenon, Thomas

Lau, Kwok-Ying

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Phenomenological Approach to Art.- Chapter 1. Aesthetic Attitude and Phenomenological Attitude: From Zhu Guangqian to Husserl (Kwok-ying Lau).- Chapter 2. An Husserlian Account of the Power of the Imaginary (Thomas Nenon).- Chapter 3. Art and Experience: Reflections on Heidegger’s ‘Origin of the Work of Art’ (Dermot Moran).- Part II. Varieties of Artistic Experience.- Chapter 4. Aisthesis and Logos – One or Two? Two Kindred Poems by Qianlong Di and Goethe (Elmar Holenstein).- Chapter 5. Seeing the Invisible: Kandinsky and the Multi-Dimensionality of Colors (Junichi Murata).- Chapter 6. The Specificity of Medium: Painting and Thinking in Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and Mind (Nicolas de Warren).- Chapter 7. Theatre as a Scene of Otherness (Bernhard Waldenfels).- Chapter 8. The Figuration of Time: Rhythm and Metaphor in Dramatic Language (Kwok-Kui Wong).- Chapter 9. Emptiness and the Spiritual in Architecture (Jung-Sun Han Heuer).- Chapter 10. Digital Technology, Urban Aesthetics,and Phenomenology (Jong-Kwan Lee).- Chapter 11. Re-presenting Earthscape: Towards a Phenomenology of Aerial Photographic Art (Chan-Fai Cheung).- Part III. Logic of Sensibility.- Chapter 12. How much Logos is there in Aisthesis? Aristotle’s Phenomenology of Perception (Emmanuel Alloa).- Chapter 13. Seeing and Touching: The Optic and the Haptic in Merleau-Ponty’s Thought (Pierre Rodrigo).- Chapter 14. Toward the Phenomenology of Aesthetic Instinct Developed through a Dialogue with F. Schiller (Nam-In Lee).

Über Autor(innen)

Kwok-ying lau is Professor and Director of MA in Philosophy Program, Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Director of Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology (CUHK); Founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (in Chinese; author of Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding. Toward a New Cultural Flesh (Springer: 2016) and Traces of French Phenomenology: from Sartre to Derrida (in Chinese, Taipei: Azoth Books, forthcoming, Fall, 2017).
Thomas Nenon is Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Memphis, USA; President, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Corp.; Co-editor of Edmund Husserl, Husserliana, Vol. XXV: Aufsätze und Vorträge 1911-21 (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1987), Edmund Husserl, Husserliana, Vol. XXVII: Aufsätze und Vorträge 1922-37 (Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1989),Husserl’s Ideen (Springer, 2012) and Advancing Phenomenology: Essays in Honor of Lester Embree (Springer: 2010).