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No full textPhenomenology and pragmatism constitute two major contemporary philosophical traditions, whose historical and theoretical entanglements have long been the subject of study and critical attention. The present issue of Azimuth aims to focus on a number of theoretical issues around which the intersection between the two traditions is played out today from a perspective that transcends scholastic and geographical boundaries and the topic of reception itself. In particular, the problem-which has always remained central to phenomenology since Husserl's late philosophy-of the ante-predicative, the pre-categorical, the aesthetic and sensible (extra-logical) foundation of logical-conceptual thought constitutes the most fruitful theoretical knot for a declination of phenomenology in the pragmatist sense (i.e., of pragmatism in the phenomenological sense). At the center of this issue, therefore, are the lines of convergence on the axis of the theory of perception and sensation, which, moreover, constitute the premises of the different meanings of truth, evidence, and judgment in the two traditions. Central, exemplarily, to the reflections of Husserl and James is the problem of the correlation between the physical and the psychic in a non-dualistic perspective: James' notion of "pure experience" as preceding the cut between subject and object refers, in Husserl's thought, to intentionality as the original correlation of subjectivity and objectivity. The ways in which pure experience and intentionality are modulated determine the different accents placed by the two philosophers on the egological or objective side, as well as the different foundations of the intersubjective connection: in both cases, the problem of the relationship between concept and percept is diriment and projects two ways of understanding experience that are not necessarily alternative but, depending on the phenomenon under consideration, possibly complementary
Be Cool! Aesthetic Imperatives and Social Practices
Full text linkWe are pleased to present the special issue of ZMJ dedicated to the International Zonemoda Conference 2019 “Be cool! Aesthetic Imperatives and Social Practices” which was held in Rimini last May. The Conference was organized by Gioia Laura Iannilli, Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci for the International Research Center “Culture Fashion Communication” of the Department for Life Quality Studies. The special issue contains a selection of the papers presented during the Conference, edited by Gioia Laura Iannilli and Stefano Marino. Being cool ain’t easy: this is all the more true today, when current reality has undergone a process of widespread aestheticization. In general, by “aestheticization” we refer here to the fact that in the last decades the aesthetic has apparently undergone an incredible process of extension and dissemination, and has fundamentally become an (often pressing) “imperative” while playing a relevant role in social practices, inasmuch as appearances and the expression of taste preferences have become determining factors for them. In this framework fashion surely plays a pivotal role: in fact, not only is fashion intrinsically connoted by the priority of appearances and taste over other features of experience, but it also does so while intertwining the aesthetic and the social implications it has. And this is presumably why the imperative “Be Cool!” is supposed to work on both levels and has such a deep impact on our reality. On the one hand, to be cool means having certain aesthetic features, inspiring certain behaviors and being connected to certain tastes, while on the other hand to be cool also means being able to make the latter convey towards good everyday practices
Book Forum on Estetica e natura umana: Questions by Simona Chiodo, Roberta Dreon, Shaun Gallagher, Tonino Griffero, Jerrold Levinson, Claudio Paolucci, Richard Shusterman: Replies by Giovanni Matteucci
Full text linkGiovanni Matteucci’s recent book 'Estetica e natura umana. La mente estesa tra percezione, emozione ed espressione' (Carocci editore, Roma 2019) ambitiously aims to bring together on the same ground – namely, a study on human nature – the tenets of two fields of research, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. The path outlined in the book 'Estetica e natura umana' and some recent articles by Matteucci is aimed at re-establishing the continuity that exists between various aspects and modalities connoting human experience: a continuity, the latter, that according to Matteucci has been undermined by a centuries-long dualistic philosophical attitude towards human nature as such. On this basis, we thought it stimulating for scholars of philosophy, for readers of “Meta” and for the author himself, to put his original philosophical conception to the test, so to speak, by planning and organizing a book forum with some questions asked by distinguished philosophers of our time working on both aesthetics and the philosophy of mind, and with the detailed replies provided by Matteucci. The complexity underlying Matteucci’s recent philosophical research is thus attested, beside his writings, by the wide-ranging questions raised by the discussants involved in this Forum: Simona Chiodo, Roberta Dreon, Shaun Gallagher, Tonino Griffero, Jerrold Levinson, Claudio Paolucci, Richard Shusterman. The topics and problems called into question by each of them, according to their specific competence, span from the relation to the traditions of pragmatism and phenomenology to enactivism, from the question of aesthetic properties to the role of the body in aesthetic experience, from the relation between perception and language to technology, just to mention a few of them. In our view, as editors of this book forum, the discussants’ questions and the replies provided by the author ultimately prove how flourishing, rich and full of potential, also for further discussion, this field of research currently is
Recensione di F. MacBride, J. Haldane (eds.), The Aesthetics of Everyday Life, “The Monist”
No full textIl tema del quotidiano ha conosciuto un’espansione non secondaria nei recenti studi estetologici internazionali. Il rapporto tra estetico e quotidiano è infatti ormai un problema ampiamente incluso nell’agenda filosofica contemporanea. Questo interesse si è tuttavia concretizzato in vari modi e non in una linea d’indagine unitaria. Un ottimo indicatore della persistente crucialità di questo argo- mento per l’estetica filosofica, e del fatto che essa non è percepita soltanto in un piccolo gruppo di studiosi, è rappresentato dal fascicolo apparso nel 2018 della prestigiosa rivista “The Monist” dedicato appunto a "The aesthetics of everyday life", un censimento autorevole e in quanto tale molto atteso da parte di chi si occupa dell’argomento di studio in questione. In questa recensione verranno presentati i contenuti principali del fascicolo mostrando i punti di debolezza dei vari contributi rispetto alla linea di ricerca più consolidata conosciuta come "Everyday Aesthetics"
Before Art as Experience: Dewey’s theory of perception and qualitative thought between aesthetic and linguistic practices
Full text linkIn this paper I will present a fragment of a wider research project aimed at reconstructing John Dewey’s aesthetic theory of perception using and correlating writings spanning the end of the 19th and the first three decades of the 20th century, before the publication of Art as Experience. Specifically, I will analyze relevant aspects of the 1930 essay Qualitative Thought emphasizing aspects that bring to the fore Dewey’s interest in the relationship between aesthetic and linguistic practices through the lens of the core concept of ‘familiarity’
Experience Design
No full textThis entry offers a first critical analysis of the concept and the phenomenon of Experience Design from an aesthetic point of view
O. Naukkarinen, Prospettive di un'estetica del quotidiano
No full textL’Everyday Aesthetics, nata principalmente in contesti accademici scandinavi e statunitensi, si è affermata in quanto una delle linee di ricerca attualmente più significative e dibattute a livello internazionale. La giovane sub-disciplina dell’estetica, così come viene definita dai suoi fautori, sta finalmente prendendo piede anche in Italia. Ciò rende oggi particolarmente interessante rendere disponibili gli argomenti sviluppati da essa in territori non anglofoni proprio a fronte dell’assenza di traduzioni dei numerosi testi realizzati almeno negli ultimi venti anni. Diverse sono le figure che in questo periodo hanno contribuito alla crescita dell’Everyday Aesthetics, arricchendola con diversi approcci, metodologie e temi d’indagine. Tra queste, quella di Ossi Naukkarinen, estetologo finlandese, risulta una delle più significative, per ampiezza e profondità del dibattito in corso. Il volume intende presentare gli esiti più interessanti della sua ricca e variegata ricerca che riguardano sia fenomeni estetici caratteristici del mondo contemporaneo (moda, vita e ambienti urbani...), sia la discussione dei confini disciplinari dell’estetica (statuto, prospettive dell’estetica, liminalità tra arte e non-arte...)
Everyday Aesthetics
No full textThe entry provides a clear analysis of a new sub-field of aesthetics named Everyday Aesthetics by addressing its core concepts, presenting its main advocates, and by linking it with other philosophical traditions that have dealt with the everyday
Problem-Solving
No full textThe aesthetic approach to objects, events and other phenomena
has often been characterized as being impractical and disinterested.
The academic discipline of aesthetics, too, has typically been considered
abstract, philosophical and theoretical, not practice-oriented.
In this paper, we take an alternative approach and show how
the aesthetic approach can have a role in practical problem-solving
processes. We will address the broad general question by focusing
on only one area that is currently of utmost importance to all of
us: how the aesthetic approach could be of use in trying to achieve
the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (henceforth
SDG), especially SDG 12, Ensuring sustainable consumption and
production patterns.
We argue that the aesthetic approach offers important qualitative
insights that are often neglected in the quantity-oriented
sustainability discourse. We suggest that the aesthetic approach to
problem-solving processes emphasizes the following aspects: making
the aesthetic aspects of the process clearly visible, or expressing
and thus framing the problem in a certain way; valuing the nexus
between “problem-solving” and “problem-intensifying” aspects
of the process; first-person multi-sensory experience; emotionality;
regulative practices that are not based on explicit rules or quantifiable measurements. Moreover, aesthetic problem-solving typically
requires collaboration and we will offer examples of this. Lastly, we
will emphasize that, unlike what is often suggested in the traditional
aesthetic discourse, aesthetic considerations should not be seen as
emphatically local and individual, and the SDG approach encourages
us to notice the global impacts of our aesthetic activities; i.e.,
our aesthetic footprint
Aesthetics of the Environment and Environmental Aesthetics
Full text linkThe thesis underlying this paper is that “the aesthetic” intrinsically possesses an environmental feature (and that therefore this latter should be a feature of aesthetics, too). In order to prove this claim viable I will tackle the implications of a so-called “environmental tension” in aesthetics. This tension, signaling a specific “environmental momentum” for contemporary aesthetics, will be understood in a threefold sense. First, in the sense of a relationship between academic/theoretical/thematic and practical/operative environmental aesthetics emphasizing the pluralistic character of the aesthetic. Second, in the sense of a relationship between backgrounds and foregrounds in aesthetic experience emphasizing the potential character of the aesthetic.Third, in the sense of a relationship between quantities and qualities in aesthetic experience emphasizing the irreducible first-hand, situated, or embedded character of the aesthetic. Ultimately, I will give an overview of seven different theoretical endeavors carried out in the framework of contemporary Italian aesthetics addressing the topic of “aesthetic environments” and whose common denominator – as I shall try to show – is precisely the environmental feature of the aesthetic and aesthetics
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