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 senseof such sensible experience of the world.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhalt

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