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Philosophy and the Art of WritingReview of Richard Shusterman’s Philosophy and the Art of Writing , Routledge, 2022, 142 pages. ISBN 9780367354909 《哲学与写作艺术》理查德·舒斯特曼的《哲学与写作艺术》书评,劳特利奇出版社,2022年版,142页。ISBN 9780367354909
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2023.2239606
Uku Tooming
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Witty Winds: Japanese Contributions to a Phenomenology of Laughter and Irony 诙谐之风:日本对笑与反讽现象学的贡献
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2023.2239604
Lorenzo Marinucci
{"title":"Witty Winds: Japanese Contributions to a Phenomenology of Laughter and Irony","authors":"Lorenzo Marinucci","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2023.2239604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2023.2239604","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper explores philosophically the experiences of laughter and irony, focusing on Japanese sources but with a cross-cultural outlook. I ask whether globally unfavorable attitudes towards the comic in the European canon might have left unexplored or misunderstood several insights offered by the bodily and spiritual dimension revealed by laughter, and examine them through Japanese sources. Following a short but poignant triad of examples in Kuki Shūzō’s work, the paper analyses three instances of Japanese laughter and irony: the orgiastic laughter of the gods luring Amaterasu out of the Heavenly Cave in Kojiki; the anthropomorphic animal scrolls of Chōjūgiga, and the “Tiger Cubs Crossing” stone garden in Ryōanji, Kyoto, concluding how each one of them offers an important insight on the bodily and conceptual phenomenological cluster of laughter and irony. I conclude with a further exploration of laughter in Zen, a religious tradition with a unique stress on the spiritual potential of humor, following Nishitani’s reading of Mumonkan and his connection to the experience of “emptiness”.KEYWORDS: laughterhumorironyfūryūKukiNishitaniZen Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For an overview, see Marinucci, “Japanese Atmospheres: Of Sky, Wind and Breathing”.2 Schmitz, Atmosphären, 7–12; for an explicit discussion of the affinity between Schmitz’s phenomenological work and Japanese cultural patters, Ogawa, Philosophy of Wind, 11–28.3 Kuki, “A Reflection on Poetic Spirit”, 96.4 Plessner, Laughing and Crying, 26.5 Ibid., 31–32.6 Ibid., 37.7 Schmitz, Atmosphären, 32–33.8 Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony, 178.9 Solger, Erwin II, quoted in Garber, Romantic Irony, 71.10 Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments, 24.11 Ibid., 5-6.12 Marinucci “Japanese Atmospheres”.13 Marinucci, “Following the Footsteps of Wind”, 83.14 Kuki, “A Reflection on Poetic Spirit”, 104.15 Heldt, The Kojiki, 24.16 Schmitz, System der Philosophie III-4, 49–50.17 Akutagawa, Akutagawa Zenshū VIII, 195.18 Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the Wolves, 248–9.19 It is worth stressing how often humour and laughter gravitate around holes, either the mouth (laughter, food), or genitals and the anus (sexual humour, scatological humour). Even the word “humour” itself ultimately refers to the bodily fluids (humores) thought to control moods through their attunement to the external world. In order to understand the laughing or comical body, it is essential to include, or even centre our attention on its holes, not simply anatomically, but as the felt-bodily nexuses of our being into the world and with others.20 Plessner, Laughing and Crying, 85.21 Watsuji, Watsuji zenshū VIII, 35.22 Diog. Laer. VI-2 40.23 Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason, 103.24 Kuki, “A Reflection on Poetic Spirit”, 104.25 Mitate 見立て is a visual pun by which an object is seen or represented as a stand-in for a very different one, creating a comic effect by effectively cas","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Appropriating the Neoliberal City: Populism, Post-Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Problematic of the “World” 新自由主义城市的占有:民粹主义、后先验现象学与“世界”问题
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2023.2239605
Sebastiaan Bierema
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The Strife of World and Earth as an Articulation of the Ontological Difference 天地之争是本体论差异的一种表达
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2023.2239602
Michael Thatcher
{"title":"The Strife of World and Earth as an Articulation of the Ontological Difference","authors":"Michael Thatcher","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2023.2239602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2023.2239602","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In a passage from the addendum to “The Origin of the Work of Art” often ignored in the secondary literature, Heidegger expands on how art institutes the unconcealment of the truth of Being with reference to the ontological difference—the difference between Being and beings which cannot rely on the comparison of predicates for clarification. The relationship between art and the ontological difference is not immediately obvious and lacks further explication in Heidegger’s other texts. This paper argues that there are two fundamental elements to the ontological difference that Heidegger focuses on that can be used to elucidate art as a strife of world and earth: “the Nothing” [das Nichts] outlined in “What is Metaphysics?” (1929) and world-projection described in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics (1929–30). Understanding these two elements of the ontological difference (world-projection and the Nothing) as present together in the event of unconcealment (aletheia) thereby clarifies for the notorious concepts of earth, world, strife, and rift (Riß) that characterize the work of art. Recourse to the ontological difference as an explanatory mechanism for conceptualising Heidegger’s philosophy of art is a useful way of avoiding common issues in the prevailing literature that will be laid out below.","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Seeing Serially: Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology Encountering Serial Drawing 连续地看:Harman的面向对象本体遇到连续图
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2023.2239600
Joe Graham
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Reimagining AI: Introduction 重塑人工智能:简介
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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2023.2213008
Dominic Smith, Natasha Lushetich, Tina Röck, Edzia Carvalho, Kenny Lewis, Gabriele Schweikert
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Creative Agents: Rethinking Agency and Creativity in Human and Artificial Systems 创造性代理:重新思考人类和人工系统中的代理和创造力
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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2022.2150470
Caterina Moruzzi
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Data as Expression 数据作为表达式
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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2022.2150465
Jaana Okulov
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Prediction Promises: Towards a Metaphorology of Artificial Intelligence 预测承诺:走向人工智能的隐喻
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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2022.2143654
Leonie A. Möck
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Theoretical and Practical Paralogisms of Digital Immortality 数字不朽的理论与实践诠释
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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/20539320.2022.2150463
Joel R. White
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