Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology

  • Art, Affectivity, and Aesthetic Value: Geiger on the Role of Emotions in Aesthetic Appreciation
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Íngrid Vendrell FerranInstitute of Philosophy, University of Marburg, Marburg, GermanyÍngrid Vendrell Ferran is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marburg (Germany). Her research is in the areas of philosophy of mind, epistemology, and aesthetics. She is the author of two books, Die Emotionen. Gefühle in der realistischen Phänomenologie (2008) and Die Vielfalt der Erkenntnis (2018). Her academic papers have been published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Topoi, Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Human Studies.
  • The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Consciousness and Phantasy: Working with Husserl
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Fotini VassiliouDepartment of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GreeceFotini Vassiliou is Assistant Professor in Phenomenology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the editor of Phenomenological Perspectives on Aesthetics and Art, special issue XXI of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. Her primary interests lie in 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy, especially in the phenomenological and existential traditions. Her research concentrates on two main strands, namely Philosophy of Perception and Phenomenological Aesthetics, as they relate to the themes of embodiment, lifeworld primordiality, and conceptuality.
  • Editor’s Introduction: Rediscovering Early Phenomenological Aesthetics
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Harri MäcklinDepartment of Philosophy, History, and Art, University of Helsinki, FinlandHarri Mäcklin, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include phenomenological and hermeneutic aesthetics and the history of modern aesthetics. His work has especially focused on topics related to aesthetic immersion. He is also an editor at the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology and an art critic at the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
  • “Quite Artificial, Awkward, and Unnecessarily Neologistic”: Early Phenomenology and Psychology Arguing About the Fundamentals of Aesthetics
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Thomas PetraschkaGerman Literature and Media Science, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, GermanyThomas Petraschka is interim professor of German literature and media science at the University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany. He has worked at the universities of Regensburg, Prague and Ljubljana before and was — together with Christiana Werner — head of the research network “Feeling and Understanding” (www.fuehlenundverstehen.net). He specializes in theory of literature and aesthetics and has just finished a book titled Einfühlung. Theorie, Kulturgeschichte und künstlerische Verarbeitung einer ästhetischen Denkfigur [Empathy. Theory, Cultural History and Artistic Reactions to an Aesthetic Figure of Thought between 1770 and 1925]. He is also editor of Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art (open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333739), which appeared at Routledge just now (in August 2023).
  • Aesthetic Experience and Empathy in Vasily Sesemann’s Phenomenological Aesthetics
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Dalius JonkusDalius Jonkus is a professor of Philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). He is president of the Lithuanian Society for Phenomenology. His research interests include phenomenological philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of early phenomenology. He has published articles on Husserl, Heidegger, Ortega y Gasset, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas. He has also compiled and edited Semann’s manuscripts for publication. His publications include Experience and Reflection: Horizons of Phenomenological Philosophie (Vytautas Magnus university Press, 2009, in Lithuanian) and The Philosophy of Vasily Sesemann: A Phenomenology of Self-awareness and Aesthetic Experience (Vytautas Magnus University Press, 2015, in Lithuanian).
  • Phenomenology as an Abortive Science of Art: Two Contexts of Early Phenomenological Aesthetics (Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft and GAChN)
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Patrick FlackDepartment of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandPatrick Flack is Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Fribourg. After obtaining a PhD in Comparative Literature from Charles University in Prague (2011) he carried out post-doctoral research at the Central-European Institute of Philosophy (Prague), the Peter-Szondi Institute (Berlin) and the Husserl Archives (Leuven). He is principal investigator of the SNF-funded project Communities of dialogue: Russian and Ukrainian Emigrés in Modernist Prague (2023–2027), the author of Idée, Expression, Vécu: la question du sens entre phénoménologie et structuralisme (Hermann, 2018) and the co-editor of several edited volumes on Merleau-Ponty, Neo-Kantianism, and the history of the language sciences.
  • Consummate Phenomena: Oskar Becker’s “Hyperontological” Aesthetics
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Benjamin BrewerUniversity of TorontoBenjamin Brewer is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (St. George). He works in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, with a focus on the ontology and politics of time, identity, and difference. His work as appeared in Philosophy Today, Critical Philosophy of Race, Symposium, and Oxford Literary Review.
  • Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Color, Light, and the Irreality of the Artwork
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Irene BreuerBergische Universität Wuppertal, GermanyIrene Breuer has a degree both in Architecture and in Philosophy from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, and a PhD in Philosophy from the Bergische University Wuppertal (BUW), Germany. She was first a lecturer, then professor for Architectural Design and Theory at the UBA and later a lecturer for Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology at the BUW. As part of a DAAD scholarship, she has conducted research on the reception of the German Philosophical Anthropology in Argentina. She is presently working on mentioned research subject, with the support of the BUW. Cf: https://uni-wuppertal.academia.edu/IreneBreuer.
  • The Layers of Aesthetic Experience: A Comparison Between Fritz Kaufmann and Ernst Cassirer
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology07 December 2023By Elio AntonucciUniversity of Cologne, Köln, GermanyElio Antonucci is former PhD Fellow at the A.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the University of Cologne and visiting scholar at the Husserl Archive in Cologne. He is currently completing his PhD project on the concept of subjectivity in Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture.
  • Philosophy and the Art of Writing
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology11 October 2023By Uku ToomingDepartment of Philosophy, University of Tartu, EstoniaUku Tooming is a Research Fellow in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu. He works primarily on philosophy of mind, aesthetics and epistemology, and has published papers on imagination, desire, self-knowledge and aesthetic appreciation in journals like Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetic Education, etc.
  • Appropriating the Neoliberal City: Populism, Post-Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Problematic of the “World”
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology11 October 2023By Sebastiaan BieremaSchool of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, IrelandSebastiaan Bierema is a Doctoral scholar in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway. As a political theorist interested in utopianism, social imaginaries, and urban spaces, his thesis interrogates comparisons between contemporary populist movements and early twentieth century utopianism.
  • Witty Winds: Japanese Contributions to a Phenomenology of Laughter and Irony
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology11 October 2023By Lorenzo MarinucciFaculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanI am currently associate professor of Aesthetics at Tōhoku University, Sendai, Japan. After completing my PhD in University or Rome – Tor Vergata, with a work analysing the role of wind and atmosphere in Japanese aesthetics, I have been Canon Europe Fellow 2020 and Japan Foundation Fellow 2021 at Kyoto University, with a project exploring the relationship of scent and philosophy in Japan (a book project that should be out for Routledge in late 2023). My research topics include phenomenology, new phenomenology, Japanese modern philosophy and aesthetics. I am an active translator from Japanese, English and German, focusing on philosophy, non-fiction and poetry (especially haiku).
  • Who Am I and Who Are You?: Gadamer on Celan’s Dialogical Poetry
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology11 October 2023By Arup Jyoti SarmaDepartment of Philosophy, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, IndiaArup Jyoti Sarma has been teaching in the Department of Philosophy at Tripura University, Tripura, India, since 2010. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 2010. His areas of interests are ethics and Western philosophy. His book Kant and Hegel on Is-Ought Dichotomy was published in 2014 from Progressive Publishers, Kolkata. He has also completed a minor research project on “Kant’s Moral Faith,” funded by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi. He has published articles in many national and international peer-reviewed journals.
  • The Strife of World and Earth as an Articulation of the Ontological Difference
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology11 October 2023By Michael ThatcherSchool of Humanities & Languages, Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaMichael Thatcher is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the School of Humanities & Languages, The University of New South Wales, Sydney. His primary interests are in phenomenology and aesthetics. He is writing his dissertation on the place of difference in the thought of Martin Heidegger and particularly its bearing on his philosophy of art and critique of aesthetics.
  • Seeing Serially: Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology Encountering Serial Drawing
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology11 October 2023By Joe GrahamDepartment of Art and Design, College of Architecture, Art and Design, American University of Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesDr Joe Graham is currently Assistant Professor in Art and Design at CAAD, American University of Sharjah. After graduating from Chelsea College of Art & Design and The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Graham completed his practice-based PhD in Drawing Research at Loughborough University, with a study that questioned the link between consciousness and serially developed drawing in phenomenological terms. His research outputs span a number of collaborative projects and publications, including articles in a range of peer-reviewed journals. Current publications include Serial Drawing: Space, Time and the Art Object, published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts (2021), and The Being of Drawing, published by Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, London (2021).
  • The Aesthetics of Human-Machine Interaction: Generative Textuality in Hello Games’s No Man’s Sky
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Justin Carpenter
  • Theoretical and Practical Paralogisms of Digital Immortality
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Joel White
  • Topographic Algorithms: Reimagining Environmental Sensing and Representation
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Richard A Carter
  • Future Imaginings in Art and Artificial Intelligence
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Andreia Machado Oliveira
  • Data as Expression
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Jaana Okulov
  • Creative Agents: Rethinking Agency and Creativity in Human and Artificial Systems
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Caterina Moruzzi
  • The Event/Machine of Neural Machine Translation?
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Arnaud Regnauld
  • Prediction Promises: Towards a Metaphorology of Artificial Intelligence
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By Leonie A. Möck
  • Compression and Noise
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology21 June 2023By M. Curtis Allen
  • Reimagining AI: Introduction
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology19 June 2023By Dominic Smith
  • Touch: Recovering our Most Vital Sense
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology27 April 2023By John P. Manoussakis
  • Terror at the Heart of Sleep – Night Terrors, Nancy, and Phenomenology
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology27 April 2023By Patrick Simon Moffett Levy
  • The “Social” in the Social Turn: Empathy, Bias, and Participatory Art
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology27 April 2023By Harry Drummond
  • Eros and Sensation: Art and Aesthetics in Emmanuel Levinas’s Prison Notebooks
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology27 April 2023By Jussi Pentikäinen
  • Seeing The Gardener Vallier: Cézanne and Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics of Doubt
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology27 April 2023By Shin Young Park
  • What Is the Object of Art?
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology27 April 2023By Andrew Benjamin

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