Atmosphere and Aesthetics

A Plural Perspective
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-24941-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tedeschini, Marco

Griffero, Tonino

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.