{"title":"Aesthetics","authors":"Petr Osolsobě","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2020.1780810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":"7 1","pages":"85 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780810","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45924236","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}
{"title":"Aesthetic Justice","authors":"Magdalena Wisniowska","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2020.1780802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780802","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In his late essay “To Have Done With Judgment” Gilles Deleuze puts forward an alternative aesthetics to those based within the doctrine of judgment. He argues that to do justice to the work of art, one must recognise the creation of the new modes of existence in the work to come. This essay aims to deepen the understanding of Deleuze’s concept of the “work to come” by going against the grain of contemporary scholarship’s focus on the essay’s ethical programme in order to explore its possible aesthetic, ontological and phenomenological interpretations. To do justice to the work to come is as much a question of the affective relationship with the work and what this relationship might mean ethically speaking, as it is of the ontological difficulty of establishing ground, or indeed, of the phenomenological problem of genetic constitution. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, the essay argues that to forsake judgment in favour of justice is to approach the artwork in terms of genesis, to appreciate existence within the field of experience as being in a continual process of development. Central to this approach is Deleuze’s definition of combat as a productive interaction of forces, which results in new modes of existence being created.","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":"7 1","pages":"49 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780802","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44106121","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}
{"title":"Out of the experience of poetry","authors":"Richard Rojcewicz","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2020.1780786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780786","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This contribution to phenomenological aesthetics takes inspiration from Martin Heidegger’s idea that poetry arises out of the experience of thinking and thinking out of the experience of poetry. The mutual nourishment of philosophy and poetry is put into practice here through a presentation of three poems and the reflections they provoke. The poems are the work of a contemporary Lithuanian-American poet, Rita Malikonytė Mockus. The reflections derive their basic orientation from Heidegger’s phenomenological philosophy of art. This philosophy is phenomenological inasmuch as it views art in terms of what Being and Time characterizes as the preeminent phenomenon, the one bestowing presence on beings while itself receding from presence. This phenomenon, for Heidegger the one and only phenomenon in the strict sense, is Being as bestower of presence. For Heidegger, art in general and especially poetry might “awaken and found anew our vision of, and trust in, that which bestows.” Such vision and trust correspond to the ancient attitude of reverence for what has been bestowed, versus the hubristic attitude of modern technology. The goal of the paper is to appeal to poetry in order to help awaken this reverential attitude which Heidegger sees as the antidote to the thrall cast over us by the things of modern technology. At the end, reverence is brought into relation with Kant’s conception of the beauty of nature as purposiveness without a purpose.","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":"7 1","pages":"33 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780786","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41974637","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}
{"title":"Early Cubism, Tactility, and Existential Spatiality","authors":"D. Ginev","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2020.1780806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780806","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to draw important parallels between the way in which configured pictorial practices of early Cubism interpreted the idea of tactile space and the phenomenological concept of existential spatiality. It is argued that in dispensing with the “illusion of perspectival space” and deconstructing geometrical perspective, several Cubist artists developed a position of multi-perspectival realism with respect to what remains ungraspable in the three-dimensional visual rendering of space. Tactile space is the main theme of early Cubist painting. Tactility remains concealed by linear perspective and three-dimensional space, and existentially primordial tactile space turns out to be the ungraspable which Cubist experiments has to disclose. At the same time, these artists succeeded in avoiding any kind of a reification of space as something that statically embraces what is situated in it. The paper is also preoccupied with Cubist “geometrical experimentation”. The claim is defended that it is precisely this experimentation that most essentially anticipates Heidegger’s analyses of the spatiality of the ready-to-hand and the spatiality of being-in-the-world. Parallels are also drawn with Merleau-Ponty’s spatiality of the perceiving-tactile body which was chiefly focused on the presupposition that the visibility attained through visual perception is imbued with invisibility stemming from the immediate tactility relating the perceiving body and the perceived entities – a presupposition shared by the early Cubists and the French phenomenologist.","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":"7 1","pages":"67 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780806","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43120625","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}
{"title":"Intimate Strangeness: Gadamer on Celan, Dialogue, and the Other","authors":"Daniel L. Tate","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2020.1780783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780783","url":null,"abstract":"The poetry of Paul Celan, particularly his late work, offers a considerable challenge to hermeneutics. Stammering on the verge of silence, these poems expose understanding to its own limits. Yet, for Hans-Georg Gadamer, this is the point: to enter into an experience with the poem where one stands exposed before the other. His own commentary on Celan’s poem-series Atemkristall responds to the hermeneutic demand “to keep listening” as a summons “to let the poem speak.” 3 By listening closely to the language of the poem one allows the other’s voice to be heard. Hermeneutically conceived, understanding the poem means nothing else. This accords with Celan’s own description of the poem as underway toward the other. Indeed, the poet risks falling silent for the sake of such an encounter. Mindful that Celan’s work increasingly moves “toward the breathless stillness of muted silence,” Gadamer attends to the way that his poetry turns language against itself in an often desperate effort to find a word that bears witness to the other. Here, Celan avers, poetry becomes dialogue, even where it despairs of reaching the other. Lacoue-Labarthe writes: “Certainly [Celan’s] poetic questioning begins with a singular address: to the other, in fact envisaged as a ‘you.’” Addressing the other as you, his poems exhibit a dialogical relation of address and response. Here Gadamer’s emphasis on dialogue converges with Celan’s understanding of poetry. In fact, his encounter with Celan’s work reveals a deeper dimension of dialogue than we find in Truth and Method. Yet it is odd that the word “dialogue” is scarcely mentioned in Gadamer’s commentary, especially since Celan describes his own poetry as “essentially dialogue.” And yet dialogue is importantly implicit in its titular question, “Who am I and Who are You?” But this does not ask after their identity; as he observes, “I” and “you” remain undetermined in Celan’s poems where each is pronounced in changing ways. Instead, they must be understood from their relation to each other where I am the addressor and you are the addressee. With this question Gadamer underscores the dialogical relation that opens the space wherein I and you come to be who they are. I propose to conceive this dialogical relation as a correspondence of address and response in which I and you are correlated. Addressed by the other, I respond in turn by addressing the other as you. In “the mystery of an encounter” (Celan) I enter into relation with your ineradicable otherness (as you do mine) which remains concealed even in our presence to one another. Because the dynamic structure of correspondence is essential, Gadamer will insist on the reciprocity of dialogue in which I and you, each turning toward the other, enter into mutual relation. At the heart of dialogue thus lies the intimacy of being-towards-the-other that opens the possibility for their meeting. As","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":"7 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2020.1780783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60043123","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}
{"title":"Symbolic Pregnance, Concrescence, and the Unconscious: E. Cassirer and S. Langer","authors":"Carole Maigné","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2019.1672298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672298","url":null,"abstract":"This paper questions the apparent silenc of Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms on the unconscious, in its double sense of the psychic structure and of the description of the imperceptible. Alt...","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45043942","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}
{"title":"The Unconscious Grounds of Aesthetic Experience","authors":"J. Kirwan","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2019.1672304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672304","url":null,"abstract":"Aesthetic experience is an emotional response to the spontaneous interpretation of an object/situation as symbolic of either the fulfilment of an impossible but inalienable desire (positive aesthet...","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672304","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48129536","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}
{"title":"The Body as a Form of the Unconscious: Valéry and Merleau-Ponty, Critics of Freud","authors":"M. Tsukamoto","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2019.1672291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672291","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of the unconscious resulted in a reversal of optics concerning the evidence of consciousness, and the split which Freud created in the analysis of mental activities elicited many reactio...","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46892338","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}
{"title":"The Creativity of the Hand","authors":"G. Gebauer","doi":"10.1080/20539320.2019.1672308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672308","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I argue that, with the liberation of the hand from the tasks of locomotion in human evolution, unconscious use of the hands begins to create cultural forms. The first feature of the...","PeriodicalId":41067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20539320.2019.1672308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45621998","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}