Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge)
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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood
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"Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice"
- Ian Tan
- Ian Tan
Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2025)
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August 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice"
- Ian Tan
- Ian Tan
The Phenomenology of Japanese Dry Stone Gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”
- Leesa S. Davis
- Leesa S. Davis
The Phenomenology of Japanese Dry Stone Gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”
The phenomenology of Japanese dry landscape gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”“Phenomenology,” says Lisa Guenther, “begins with a description of lived experience and reflects on ...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Phenomenology of Japanese Dry Stone Gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”
- Leesa S. Davis
- Leesa S. Davis
"Living in Art: Interior Design and Artistic Experience"
- Caleb Faul
- Caleb Faul
Living in Art: Interior Design and Artistic Experience
In this article, I argue that interior design is paradigmatic for our understanding of art more broadly. Key to my argument is the phenomenological structure of inhabitation, for what distinguishes...
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June 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"Living in Art: Interior Design and Artistic Experience"
- Caleb Faul
- Caleb Faul
"In Search of New Life: Literature in Gilles Deleuze's Vitalistic Philosophy"
- Sean Winkler
- Sean Winkler
In Search of New Life: Literature in Gilles Deleuze’s Vitalistic Philosophy
In this paper, I examine the role of literature in 20th-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s vitalistic philosophy, insofar as he defines it is an ‘enterprise of health’ that transports one ...
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June 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"In Search of New Life: Literature in Gilles Deleuze's Vitalistic Philosophy"
- Sean Winkler
- Sean Winkler
"Gadamer and the Topology of Aesthetics'
- Sam McAuliffe
- Sam McAuliffe
Gadamer and the Topology of Aesthetics
Gadamer’s account of aesthetic experience emerges primarily from his engagement with Kant and Heidegger. Gadamer pushes back against the subjectivism of the Neo-Kantians, where aesthetic judgement ...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Gadamer and the Topology of Aesthetics'
- Sam McAuliffe
- Sam McAuliffe
Immanent and Symbolic Functions of Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl’s Phantasy and Image Consciousness (1904/05)
- Pia Cordero
- Pia Cordero
Immanent and Symbolic Functions of Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl’s Phantasy and Image Consciousness (1904/05)
This paper aims to contribute to understanding Edmund Husserl’s early theory of imagination by examining the immanent function and the symbolic function of image consciousness in Phantasy and Image...
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June 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Immanent and Symbolic Functions of Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl’s Phantasy and Image Consciousness (1904/05)
- Pia Cordero
- Pia Cordero
New issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2025
with works by: Pia Cordero, Sam McAuliffe, Sean Winkler, Caleb Faul, Leesa S. Davis, Ian Tan
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2025
with works by: Pia Cordero, Sam McAuliffe, Sean Winkler, Caleb Faul, Leesa S. Davis, Ian Tan
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
Publishes innovative research in aesthetics that draws from the phenomenological tradition, as well as its close connections with the arts and culture.
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May 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
New issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2025
with works by: Pia Cordero, Sam McAuliffe, Sean Winkler, Caleb Faul, Leesa S. Davis, Ian Tan
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2025
with works by: Pia Cordero, Sam McAuliffe, Sean Winkler, Caleb Faul, Leesa S. Davis, Ian Tan
Book Review: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Tom Marshall
- Tom Marshall
Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 2024)
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May 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Book Review: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Tom Marshall
- Tom Marshall
Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
- A dialogue with Richard Kearney and Jeffrey Bernstein
- A dialogue with Richard Kearney and Jeffrey Bernstein
Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 2024)
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May 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
- A dialogue with Richard Kearney and Jeffrey Bernstein
- A dialogue with Richard Kearney and Jeffrey Bernstein
The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s Phenomenology
- Ming Hon Chu
- Ming Hon Chu
The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s Phenomenology
In the final years of his life, the Belgian phenomenologist Marc Richir started to question if philosophical writing would become pointless when artists, great poets for example, have already achie...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s Phenomenology
- Ming Hon Chu
- Ming Hon Chu
A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic Experience
- Irene Breuer
- Irene Breuer
A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic Experience
This paper aims to pay tribute to Figal’s comprehensive and innovative analysis of the artwork and beauty, while challenging both his realist position on the immediacy of meaning and his monist sta...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic Experience
- Irene Breuer
- Irene Breuer
Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of Enchantment
- Yue Jennifer Wang
- Yue Jennifer Wang
Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of Enchantment
This paper engages in a comparative study between the vital materialism in the works of political theorist Jane Bennett (primarily, The Enchantment of Modern Life) and the ontology of flesh in the ...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of Enchantment
- Yue Jennifer Wang
- Yue Jennifer Wang
Negativity and Zwischen: An Account of Byung-Chul Han’s Aesthetics
- Alberto Morán Roa
- Alberto Morán Roa
Negativity and Zwischen: An Account of Byung-Chul Han’s Aesthetics
Byung-Chul Han’s reflections on aesthetics are heavily influenced by Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutic reading of phenomenology and the theses of his Doktormutter, Utte Guzzoni, on the mutual determin...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Negativity and Zwischen: An Account of Byung-Chul Han’s Aesthetics
- Alberto Morán Roa
- Alberto Morán Roa
Blumenberg and the Mythology of the Lifeworld: A Deconstructive Reading of Husserl’s Phenomenology
- Yutong Li
- Yutong Li
Blumenberg and the Mythology of the Lifeworld: A Deconstructive Reading of Husserl’s Phenomenology
This paper argues that Hans Blumenberg’s theory illuminates a novel interpretation of the phenomenological concept of the lifeworld—as a world sustained by myths and their receptions. This paper co...
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April 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Blumenberg and the Mythology of the Lifeworld: A Deconstructive Reading of Husserl’s Phenomenology
- Yutong Li
- Yutong Li
As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
When we talk about natural beauty perhaps we think of the products or forces that we commonly associate with nature: rivers, birds, trees, the sky, the moon, the sun, and so on. That is, objects th...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
When we talk about natural beauty perhaps we think of the products or forces that we commonly associate with nature: rivers, birds, trees, the sky, the moon, the sun, and so on. That is, objects th...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales
How Husserl’s Phenomenology Facilitates Our Grasp of Unfamiliar Artworks
- Sue Spaid
- Sue Spaid
How Husserl’s Phenomenology Facilitates Our Grasp of Unfamiliar Artworks
This paper explores how phenomenology facilitates people’s grasp of unfamiliar artworks. When avant-garde artworks lack handy categories, meaning-makers unwittingly deploy Edmund Husserl’s phenomen...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
How Husserl’s Phenomenology Facilitates Our Grasp of Unfamiliar Artworks
- Sue Spaid
- Sue Spaid
The Aesthetics of the Invisible—At the Margins of Phenomenology
- Meirav Almog
- Meirav Almog
The Aesthetics of the Invisible—At the Margins of Phenomenology
The paper focuses on the complex relations between aesthetics and phenomenology as they show themselves within the core locus of their interplay—the realm of the visible and the invisible. To do so...
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April 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The Aesthetics of the Invisible—At the Margins of Phenomenology
- Meirav Almog
- Meirav Almog
Art, Rhythm, and the Truth of the Sensible. Henri Maldiney’s Phenomenological Aesthetics
- Erik Lind
- Erik Lind
Art, Rhythm, and the Truth of the Sensible. Henri Maldiney’s Phenomenological Aesthetics
In this essay, I will examine Henri Maldiney’s phenomenological aesthetics, focusing on his claim that “art is the truth of the sensible.” This claim is presented by Maldiney in the context of a tw...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Art, Rhythm, and the Truth of the Sensible. Henri Maldiney’s Phenomenological Aesthetics
- Erik Lind
- Erik Lind
New Special Issue, guest edited by Clive Cazeaux
Volume 11, Issue 1-2
The Relation Between Aesthetics and Phenomenology.
Works by: John Montani, Erik Lind, Meirav Almog, Sue Spaid, Alfonso Morales, Yutong Li, Alberto Roa, Yue Wang, Irene Breuer, Ming Hon Chu
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Volume 11, Issue 1-2
The Relation Between Aesthetics and Phenomenology.
Works by: John Montani, Erik Lind, Meirav Almog, Sue Spaid, Alfonso Morales, Yutong Li, Alberto Roa, Yue Wang, Irene Breuer, Ming Hon Chu
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfap20/11/1-2
April 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
New Special Issue, guest edited by Clive Cazeaux
Volume 11, Issue 1-2
The Relation Between Aesthetics and Phenomenology.
Works by: John Montani, Erik Lind, Meirav Almog, Sue Spaid, Alfonso Morales, Yutong Li, Alberto Roa, Yue Wang, Irene Breuer, Ming Hon Chu
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfap20/11/1-2
Volume 11, Issue 1-2
The Relation Between Aesthetics and Phenomenology.
Works by: John Montani, Erik Lind, Meirav Almog, Sue Spaid, Alfonso Morales, Yutong Li, Alberto Roa, Yue Wang, Irene Breuer, Ming Hon Chu
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfap20/11/1-2
"Rhythm as a Logic of the Sensible World"
- John Montani
- John Montani
Rhythm as a Logic of the Sensible World
One of the aims of phenomenology was to uncover a logic of the sensible world. This essay shows how rhythm can be understood as a logic of the sensible world and how rhythm is not only a profoundly...
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April 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
"Rhythm as a Logic of the Sensible World"
- John Montani
- John Montani