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Atmosphere and Aesthetics

A Plural Perspective

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides a complete presentation of the concept of "atmosphere"

  • Discusses various applications of atmopshere in the humanities and social sciences

  • Brings together studies and ruminations on the role and concept of "atmosphere" in a variety of contexts and fields of research

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Tonino Griffero, Marco Tedeschini
    Pages 1-7
  3. Atmospheric Turn?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Atmospheric Spaces

      • Hermann Schmitz
      Pages 63-76
    3. Japanese Atmospheres: Of Sky, Wind and Breathing

      • Lorenzo Marinucci
      Pages 93-118
  4. Senses and Spaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. A Jungly Feeling: The Atmospheric Design of Zoos

      • Michael Hauskeller, Tom Rice
      Pages 147-158
    3. Atmospheric Aestheses: Law as Affect

      • Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
      Pages 159-174
    4. The Lesser Existence of Ambiance

      • Jean-Paul Thibaud
      Pages 175-187
  5. Subjects and Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
    2. The Lightness of Atmospheric Communities

      • Mikkel Bille
      Pages 241-255
  6. Aesthetics and Art Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
    2. Smell and Atmosphere

      • Gernot Böhme
      Pages 259-264

About this book

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.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Tonino Griffero

  • Italian Institute for German Studies, Rome, Italy

    Marco Tedeschini

About the editors

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Atmosphere and Aesthetics

  • Book Subtitle: A Plural Perspective

  • Editors: Tonino Griffero, Marco Tedeschini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24942-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24941-0Published: 02 December 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24944-1Published: 27 December 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24942-7Published: 21 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Aesthetics, Cultural Theory, Cognitive Psychology

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