Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces
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affective atmospheres
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Atmospheric Feelings
Atmospheric Irradiation
Atmospheric Power
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Blue Sky
Body Odour
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characters
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Discrete Fascination
Efficacious Barrier
embodied experience
emotional affordances
Emotional Intuitiveness
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Fairy Tale
feelings
Fiat Boundaries
Fluid Oscillation
General Figural Moment
genius loci concept
Goldfish Bowl
irradiation
Motor Suggestions
nascendi
non-psychologistic emotion philosophy
Optical Field
phenomenic
phenomenological aesthetics
power
Pre-modern Knowledge
Preferred Atmosphere
Principium Individuationis
qualities
Seductive Atmosphere
Semantic Plasticity
Sentimental Character
spatial perception theory
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Tawny Owl
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781138247710
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in Italian in 2010, this book is the first to address the theory of atmospheres in a thorough and systematic way. It examines the role of atmospheres in daily life, and defines their main characteristics. Outlining the typical phenomenological situations in which we experience atmospheres, it assesses their impact on contemporary aesthetics. It puts forward a philosophical approach which systematises a constellation of affects and climates, finds patterns in the emotional tones of different spaces (affordances) and assesses their impact on the felt body. It also critically discusses the spatial turn invoked by several of the social sciences, and argues that there is a need for a non-psychologistic rethinking of the philosophy of emotions. It provides a history of the term 'atmosphere' and of the concepts anticipating its meaning (genius loci, aura, Stimmung, numinous, emotional design and ambiance), and examines the main ontological characteristics of atmospheres and their principal phenomenological characteristics. It concludes by showing how atmospheres affect our emotions, our bodies' reactions, our state of mind and, as a result, our behaviour and judgments. Griffero assesses how atmospheres are more effective than we have been rationally willing to admit, and to what extent traditional aesthetics, unilaterally oriented towards art, has underestimated this truth.
Tonino Griffero is an Italian philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy.
