Places, Affordances, Atmospheres: A Pathic Aesthetics

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Author’s note PART ONE: Pathic aesthetics and New Phenomenology 1. Art and atmospheres: the approach of a pathic aesthetics Notes 2. The psychologistic-introjectivistic-reductionist paradigm: the source of all errors Notes 3. A history of repressions Notes 4. Neo-phenomenological “therapies” Notes PART TWO: Atmospheres, presences, expressive qualities 5. Are there inauthentic atmospheric feelings? The overestimation of intentionality Notes 6. Good regressions: mineness and absolute subjectivity Notes 7. Condemned to sense (and expression): eight theses on atmospheres as expressive wholes Thesis number 1: atmospheric expressiveness is an irreducible qualitative whole Thesis number 2: atmospheric expressiveness is not given by discrete sense-data but by internally meaningful chaotic-manifold situations Thesis number 3: atmospheric expressiveness eludes the traditional stratified conception of the relationships between nature and culture Thesis number 4: atmospheric expressiveness can be both intentional and unintentional Thesis number 5: atmospheric expressiveness is not the external manifestation of something internal Thesis number 6: atmospheric expressiveness cannot be explained in associationistic terms Thesis number 7: atmospheric expressiveness implies an articulate felt-bodily communication Thesis number 8: atmospheric expressiveness is the outcome of affordances or ecstasies (but not properties) Notes 8. Come rain or come shine …: the (neo)phenomenological will-to-presentness Notes PART THREE: Atmospherological exercises Two premises Notes 9. Architectural affordances: the atmospheric authority of spaces Notes 10. A house is not a home: dwelling means cultivating atmospheres Notes 11. Inclusiveness and immersion Notes 12. Found or created? The genius loci as an (atmospheric) experience Notes 13. Stone, soil and sand: earthy atmospheres Notes 14. Like leaves in the wind: does democracy have its own atmosphere? Notes 15. Intentionality and unintentionality in the pedagogical atmosphere Notes 16. Theatrical atmospheres: much ado about nothing? Notes Bibliography Index