- Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor ColeridgeJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Peter Cheyne Faculty of Law and Literature, Shimane UniversityPeter Cheyne is professor of philosophy and literature, Shimane University, Japan, and visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and at Durham University. He is the author of Coleridge’s Contemplative Philosophy (Oxford UP, 2020), editor of Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists (Springer, forthcoming), Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023), Coleridge and Contemplation (Oxford UP, 2017), and co-editor of The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (Oxford UP, 2020). He is currently working on intuition and transcendence in art, religion, and everyday life.
- Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital SenseJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Richard Kearney Jeffrey Bernstein a Department of Philosophy, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USAb Department of Philosophy, the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, USARichard Kearney is the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and of over 24 books on European philosophy and literature. In addition, he has edited or co-edited 21 volumes. He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin. His books include: The Wake of Imagination (1988), Strangers, Gods and Monsters (2002), and On Paul Ricoeur: The Owl of Minerva (2004).Jeffrey A. Bernstein is a Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. His publications include Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History (2015) and the co-edited volume Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought: Reading Strauss Outside the Lines (2021) both published by SUNY Press.
- The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s PhenomenologyJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Ming Hon Chu Paris Nanterre University, FranceMing Hon Chu is a doctoral researcher at the Paris Nanterre University. He specializes in phenomenology and focuses primarily on the methodological problem of motivation. He also has a cross-disciplinary interest and is working on the phenomenology of dreaming. He is the author of Formen der Versunkenheit, a monograph on Eugen Fink’s phenomenology of dreaming.
- Editor’s Introduction: The Question of the Relation Between Aesthetics and PhenomenologyJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Clive Cazeaux Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UKClive Cazeaux is Professor of Aesthetics at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. He writes on the relation between art and philosophy, especially the way in which it is informed by ideas from Kant to phenomenology. Areas of interest within this include the philosophies of the senses, artistic research, and metaphor, with a focus on metaphor’s role in the way we carve up the world and think. He is the author of Art, Research, Philosophy (Routledge 2017) and Metaphor and Continental Philosophy: From Kant to Derrida (Routledge 2007), and the editor of The Continental Aesthetics Reader (Routledge 2011, 2nd edition).
- Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of EnchantmentJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Yue Jennifer Wang Villanova UniversityYue Jennifer Wang is a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy department at Villanova University. She holds the interdisciplinary Theology-Philosophy fellowship within the Philosophy department. Her dissertation project is entitled “A Phenomenology of Mystical Embodiment: Merleau-Ponty and Hildegard on the Transformation of Sense Perception.”
- A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic ExperienceJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Irene Breuer Bergische Universität Wuppertal, GermanyIrene Breuer, Dr. (Phil.), Dipl.-Ing. Arch.: Degree in Architecture (1988) and in Philosophy (2003) from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. 2012: PhD in Philosophy from the Bergische University Wuppertal (BUW), Germany. 1988-2002: Lecturer, then Professor for Architectural Design and Theory at the UBA and University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires. 2012 to mid 2017: Lecturer for Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology at the BUW. 2019: DAAD scholarship, research on the reception of the German Philosophical Anthropology in Argentina. Presently working on mentioned research subject, with the support of the BUW. My research focus is set on: ancient Greek philosophy, classical German and French phenomenology, aesthetics, architectural theory and design. Cf: https://uni-wuppertal.academia.edu/IreneBreuer
- Blumenberg and the Mythology of the Lifeworld: A Deconstructive Reading of Husserl’s PhenomenologyJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Yutong Li KU LeuvenYutong Li is a PhD student at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven, Belgium.
- Negativity and Zwischen: An Account of Byung-Chul Han’s AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Alberto Morán Roa Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SpainAlberto Morán Roa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), as part of the Research Project “Schematismus: Esquematismo, teoría de las categorías y mereología en la filosofía kantiana: una perspectiva fenomenológico-hermenéutica” (MINECO PID2020-115142GA-100; main researcher: Alba Jiménez Rodríguez).
- As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural BeautyJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Alfonso Hoyos Morales Autonomous University of BarcelonaAlfonso Hoyos Morales is a PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he has already submitted his dissertation and is awaiting its defense in December of this year. His doctoral research focuses on a phenomenological revision of the concept of “model” in the films of Robert Bresson. He studied Philosophy at both the University of Seville and the University of Barcelona, followed by a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Studies at Pompeu Fabra University. He has taught courses in Aesthetics, Critical Theory, and Film at both the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona.
- How Husserl’s Phenomenology Facilitates Our Grasp of Unfamiliar ArtworksJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Sue Spaid Northern Kentucky UniversityActive in the artworld as an art critic and curator for nearly forty years, Sue Spaid authored The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World (2020). Additionally, she has published papers in philosophical journals that address care aesthetics, biodiversity, hate speech, AI, degraded land, hydrological justice, and climate change. In 2025, she will publish Making Values Explicit: How We Do, Act, Care, and Change with Ethics Press.
- The Aesthetics of the Invisible—At the Margins of PhenomenologyJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Meirav Almog Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the ArtsMeirav Almog (PhD, The School of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University and Post-doc at the program for Philosophy and Literature in the Philosophy department at Haifa University), is a philosophy lecturer at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She specializes in twentieth century continental philosophy, in particular, phenomenology and aesthetics. Her research interests and publications concern questions regarding corporeality and alterity, dialogue and intersubjective relations, and the relations between style and human existence.
- Art, Rhythm, and the Truth of the Sensible. Henri Maldiney’s Phenomenological AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By Erik Lind University of Lisbon, PortugalErik Lind is a PhD fellow in the Center of Philosophy at the University of Lisbon and a visiting scholar at the Husserl Archives in Paris. He is currently working on a PhD project dealing with the concept of form in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy.
- Rhythm as a Logic of the Sensible WorldJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology08 January 2025By John Montani University of OregonJohn Montani is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oregon who holds an MA in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. His research focuses on rhythm, sense, and world.
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
- Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
- The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s Phenomenology
- Editor’s Introduction: The Question of the Relation Between Aesthetics and Phenomenology
- Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of Enchantment
- A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic Experience
- Blumenberg and the Mythology of the Lifeworld: A Deconstructive Reading of Husserl’s Phenomenology
- Negativity and Zwischen: An Account of Byung-Chul Han’s Aesthetics
- As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
- How Husserl’s Phenomenology Facilitates Our Grasp of Unfamiliar Artworks
- The Aesthetics of the Invisible—At the Margins of Phenomenology
- Art, Rhythm, and the Truth of the Sensible. Henri Maldiney’s Phenomenological Aesthetics
- Rhythm as a Logic of the Sensible World