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Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces 1st Edition by Tonino Griffero, ISBN-13: 978-1138247710
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- Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (November 11, 2016)
- Language: English
- 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 1138247715
- ISBN-13: 978-1138247710
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Not to Leave Vagueness (but to Stay in it in the Right Way) 1
1 Atmospheric Perception 9
1.1 Atmospheric Segmentation? 9
1.2 Perceiving Atmospheres 11
1.3 How One Feels Here and Now in the Felt-Body 23
1.4 The First Impression 29
1.5 Atmospheres as Situational Constraints 31
1.6 Lived (Predimensional) Spaces 36
1.7 ‘Affordances’ and Imagine-Motor Reactions 47
2 History of the Concept of Atmosphere 55
2.1 The Climatic Paradigm 55
2.2 Atmosphere and Landscape 60
2.3 Orosensory Atmosphere (and the Case of Haptics) 63
2.4 … that ‘Creates an Atmosphere’ 69
2.5 The Numinous and the ‘Genius Loci’ 73
2.6 ‘Stimmung’, ‘Ambiance’, Aura 75
2.7 From ‘Affordances’ to Emotional Design 79
2.8 And Art? From the Beautiful to the Atmospheric 82
2.9 Urban Seductions 87
2.10 The Magic of Dwelling 93
2.11 Ecstasy of Materials 96
3 Atmospherology 101
3.1 History of a ‘Sin’: Introjection and Projection 101
3.2 Atmospheres: Not Metaphors but Quasi-things 108
3.3 Sinaesthesias 113
3.4 ‘All Out’: Atmospheric Ontology 119
3.5 Principles of a Phenomenology of Atmospheres 129
Conclusion 143
Bibliography 151
Index 171
Tonino Griffero is an Italian philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy.
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