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  • The aesthetic field: Arnold Berleant's philosophy as a new understanding of experience
    (2022) Matteucci, Giovanni
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    The essay aims to identify the original matrix of Berleant’s aesthetic thought by deepening his initial research on the notion of “field”. Berleant analyzes the “aesthetic field” by considering it as a dynamic texture that stands outside the dualisms that have characterized modern philosophy. At the core of this analysis is the fruitful convergence between different traditions from which Berleant draws for laying out his philosophical program. In particular, if phenomenology leads him to thematize the connection between experience and judgment, pragmatism leads him to establish the cornerstone of the experiential (and above all perceptual) character of the aesthetic as such. Thanks to this, the perspective developed by Berleant since the seventies of the twentieth century still proves to be largely vital, as it is capable of delineating an anthropological horizon centered on the analysis of the “environmental” practices of the so-called “aesthetic engagement”.
  • Aesthetics and ethics of relationality: philosophies of Arnold Berleant and Watsuji Tetsuro compared
    (2022) Saito,Yuriko
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Arnold Berleant’s oeuvre spanning half a century is remarkable in its rescience and global reach. One of the most important contributions he makes is to illuminate the relationality that characterizes our aesthetic experience. His notion of aesthetic engagement, extending also to define our mode of being in the world, overcomes the dichotomy between subject and object, a long-held and well-entrenched legacy of Western philosophy. This relational account of human existence is also developed by a twentieth century Japanese philosopher, Watsuji Tetsurō, in his ethics based upon the notion of inbetween-ness. Despite the shared concern to emphasize the interdependent and intertwined relationship with the world as the nature of human existence and aesthetic experience, Watsuji’s interest focuses on self-cultivation, without sufficient attention paid to its social and political implications. Berleant, in comparison, develops the notion of negative aesthetics to highlight those aspects of our lives and environments in which our relational existence and aesthetics are damaged and advocates the importance of utilizing aesthetic sensibility as a critical instrument for social improvement.
  • Aesthetics of Japanese Convenience Stores: From the Point of “Eating Alone”
    (2020) Akiba, Fuminori
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Convenience stores in Japan have a history of over 40 years. It is thought that they have greatly influenced Japanese ways of life. However, convenience stores are rarely the subject of research in aesthetics. This may be because convenience stores are bright and transparent, incompatible with traditional Japanese aesthetics of shadow in close proximity to light. They are also accused of selling so-called "convenience food," one of the causes of unhealthy "solitary eating," or “eating alone.” From this point of view the food comics Hitori Gohan (Eating Alone) sold at convenience stores is interesting because the subject of solitary eating is the exact problem of convenience stores. Does Hitori Gohan show darkness or shadows of convenience stores? My hypothesis is that Hitori Gohan contains light, not just darkness of solitude. After testing this hypothesis directly against the manga and its readers, I conclude what the aesthetic stance is in today’s Japanese conven-ience stores in comparison to sabi, a Japanese traditional aesthetic value, and its contemporary version, mabusabi, which closely relate to the solitude.
  • Aesthetics of Popular Culture as Environmental Aesthetics
    (2017) Naukkarinen, Ossi
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Philosophical aesthetics, like many other academic fields, has in recent years been invigorated by the study of environmental questions and popular culture. Meanwhile, environmental aesthetics has become an independent field in its own right, separate from the philosophy of art, which has traditionally dominated the field of aesthetics. In popular aesthetics, however, the search for identity and the separation from high art and its philosophy are still far from complete. One way to break away from this restrictive relationship is to look for a new point of reference. A new liberating ally of popular aesthetics seems to be found precisely in environmental aesthetics, which came into its own earlier.
  • Aesthetics of Trash - Short Overview
    (2018) Mecacci, Andrea
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
  • Arnold Berleant - a life for nature and for art
    (2022) Erzen, Jale
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Arnold Berleant has been, since many years, both a friend and a guide in my work on aesthetics and in the IAA. His congenial approach to nature and his sincere and clear language has contributed to developments in environmental aesthetics and in attracting readers and students to his ideas that also implicate social values. Berleant’s engaged concern about values of life and of the world have been pioneering efforts in ecological discourse. Berleant’s own engagement with nature and with art gave fruit to his creative work in music, as he has been composing all along his academic career. Contemporary Aesthetics, a high-quality online journal that he created has been an indispensable international forum for all writers and readers of aesthetics.
  • Arnold Berleant - master of the art, life and philosophy
    (2022) Lukaszewicz, Aleksandra
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Arnold Berleant is one of our contemporary philosophers: not just scholars in philosophy, a philosopher is a person who, according to the Greek etymology of the term philosophy (philósophos meaning “loving knowledge”) loves wisdom. In this definition should be stressed not only knowledge or wisdom – which used to be in myopic focus in Western reflection, and could be called the ‘Faustian curse’ of pursuing knowledge while overlooking ethical values – the same importance should be recognized in love, which entails the emotional and sensory engagement of the whole human being. Being ethical goes hand in hand with being wise or knowledgeable, which is presented throughout all his life in his oeuvre by Arnold Berleant.
  • Arnold Berleant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne
    (2022) Saison, Maryvonne
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Berleant and Dufrenne were both simultaneously benchmarks in the IAA for many years. They knew each other and Berleant refered to Dufrenne occasionally. Starting from some quotations of Dufrenne by Berleant, I propose to show how both of them differ from Merleau-Ponty when thinking that perception is not only an act of vision but a somatic process. The originality of Berleant associating phenomenology and Anglo-Saxon way of thinking could lead to suggest that Environmental Aesthetics has a feedback effect opening a new reading of Dufrenne.
  • Arnold Berleant: Guide to my research on environment aesthetics
    (2022) Chen, Wangheng
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
  • Arts & Ents
    (2018) Hamilton, James
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
  • An asynchronous dialogue on core ideas
    (2022) Mandoki, Katya
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    I had the privilege of enjoying a dialogue with Arnold Berleant as we met during congresses on several occasions and by writing to each other on various questions throughout the years. All of these have been precious to me. On the occasion of his Festschrift, a new opportunity opens up in which I revise some of his ideas on aesthetic field, aesthetic disinterest, aesthetic engagement, and negativity along his career. Even if we both have focused on similar subjects and approached them through a pragmatist framework, our common starting point has taken each of us through very different paths. Berleant’s utopian views of aesthetics projected into the political somehow echo Frankfurt School’s emancipatory demand on the aesthetic, and I do hope he may be right. Although we may dream for a better world, whatever values and directions aesthetics takes requires us to underline its specificity well aware of political and ethical implications in which it is always already entangled with.
  • Beaty Revealed in Scilence: Ways of Aesthetization in Hannibal (NBC 2013-2015)
    (2017) Andrzejewski, Adam
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
  • Behind closed doors: from facts to narratives in the photographic works of Taryn Simon and Thomas Demand
    (2021) Castro Díaz, Maribel
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Photography, after reaching a sophisticated conceptual development in the last decades, is probably one of the most powerful art forms nowadays, and omnipresent in a hyper-narrative society; in this context, new discursive concerns are emerging. This study discusses artistic works made by Taryn Simon and Thomas Demand to examine how art photography questions the “documentary” quality of the medium in new ways. Blurring the boundaries between reportage, conceptualism and portraiture, Simon´s projects often deal with issues of power: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamilar (2007) makes visible matters that are usually concealed from the public audience, showing inaccessible or unknown places that are inherent to America´s foundation, mythology and daily functioning. Demand´s recreations of apparently mundane scenes explore the frictions between opacity and intelligibility, fiction and veracity. Both Simon and Demand take as subjects the media-based narratives and perceptions of reality, remarking the potential of photography as a vehicle of consciousness.
  • Bellissima!: Reassessing Access to Redress Mass Art
    (2018) Spaid, Sue
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
  • Berleant as educator
    (2022) Leddy, Thomas
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    Berleant was and is an educator in a variety of ways essential to aesthetics and philosophy of the arts. I use both tenses since Berleant’s contribution to an environmental and holistic approach to aesthetics is both historical and ongoing. Foremost has been the impact of his key idea of “engagement” on a generation of younger aestheticians (he was unfortunately neglected by many of his contemporaries) in such areas as feminist, nature, landscape, architectural, and everyday aesthetics. Berleant was/is an educator of both national and international scope, not only for his contribution at the highest institutional levels but also for his creation and nurturing of the groundbreaking journal, Contemporary Aesthetics. But, more, through the great range of his writings he has touched for the first time a multitude of aesthetic topics, including, even, riding a canoe down a river. Finally, Berleant has educated by bridging chasms between many schools of thought on several continents. For some, he has played a role much like that of Schopenhauer for Nietzsche, hence the title of this paper, not so much in ideology as in being a philosophical exemplar. This paper is also a personal deeply felt Thank-you from a younger admirer, and, in a sense, follower.
  • Between Mourning and Ridicule: The Odd Phenomenon of "Hodoorstops"
    (2017) Kosonen, Heidi S.; Ylönen, Susanne C.
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
  • Between west & east: historiographic approach and contemporary shifting discourses on kitsch in Central Europe
    (2023) Migasova, Jana
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    The main goal of the research approach is the historical reconstruction and interpretation of the development of the kitsch concept as an aesthetic and art-theory position of thinking about visual culture. According to the hypothesis, kitsch is dialectically related to modernity. It can be proved by dissolving boundaries between kitsch and art, as well as the disappearing of negative connotations connected with kitsch – in the area of visual art practice, as well as in the current discourse of theoretical conceptions of kitsch. Revealing a specific, Central European way of thought on kitsch illustrates that the development and transformation of the concept is more complicated. The contemporary understanding of kitsch can be grasped in two ways: a) as a postmodern, reassessed understanding of kitsch related to a transforming concept of art (from Eurocentric to global); b) as an aesthetic expression of falsehood, beautification of moral failure, which was a striking part of the aesthetic experience from totalitarian societies.
  • Björk: the Rousseau of rock
    (2023) Snaevarr, Stefan
     A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    I introduce my concept of artworlds; they are meaningful artistic wholes. Björk is situated within such “worlds” as the one of progrock, the world of experimental art, the world of literature, and the popworld. Björkworld is on the crossroad of these worlds. Her music is compared to the experimental progrock of Frank Zappa; if he is tough, then she is soft. Then she is being compared to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who celebrated childishness and the beauties of nature, much like Björk. Comparing artworks and ways of thinking is often a fruitful way of determining their identity. Comparing Björk to Rousseau and Zappa helps us understand the Björkworld. And aspects of Western culture, for instance the Christian celebration of childishness.
  • Bland Modernity, Kitsch and Reflections on the Aesthetic Production in Singapore
    (2020) Wee, C.J.W. – L.
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
  • Can Arnold Berleant's aesthetics of engagement be applied to "conceptual dance"? Experience as engaged participation
    (2022) Bieszczad, Lilianna
     J Muu elektroninen julkaisu
    The central aim of the article is to reflect on whether-and if so, how-Arnold Berleant's theory of aesthetic engagement can be applied to works described with the controversial term 'conceptual dance', in other words, to works that undermine the determinants of a dance performance. Berleant stresses the open nature of his project of aesthetic experience; however, he does not describe works that seek to destabilize perception in dance performances. With this in mind, the concepts of aesthetics and critical aesthetics are considered as indicating a possible direction for the further development of the ideas outlined in Berleant's Sense and Sensibility. This extension of Berleant's thought enables the problem of destabilization of perception to be grasped, and encompasses the issues of criticality and the political, which animate the performances of Xavier Le Roy, Jan Ritsema and Jonathan Burrows.