Aesthetics as Phenomenology

Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect-how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at which, in our contemplation of a work of art, reaction and thought confront each other. For those trained in the visual arts and for more casual viewers, Figal unmasks art as a decentering experience that opens further possibilities for understanding our lives and our world.

Autorentext

Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. He is author of Objectivity: Philosophy and the Hermeneutical and editor of The Heidegger Reader (IUP, 2009).

Jerome Veith teaches at Seattle University.

Inhalt

Translator's Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: Art, Philosophically

1. Why Art?
2. Which Art?
3. Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
   Chapter Two: Beauty
4. Free Play
5. Appearances and Things
6. Showing and Self-Showing
   Chapter Three: Art Forms
7. Arts
8. Essential Determinations
9. Mixtures
   Chapter Four: Nature
10. Oppositions
11. Limits and Inclusions
12. Primordial Appearance
    Chapter Five: Space
13. Places
14. Emptiness
15. Here
    Bibliography
    Index of Names and Subjects
    Index of Terms