Maximilian Beck on the Metaphysical Significance of Beauty and Art: Celebrating Wesen und Wert (1925) One Hundred Years Later

This paper is meant to contribute to the rediscovery of Maximilian Beck, a former student of Alexander Pfänder and a representative of a realist tendency in early phenomenology. I will accordingly ...

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The Totality of the Real: Aesthetic Transformation in Zhuangzi and Hadot

This essay develops a distinct aesthetic theory grounded in ancient Daoist—especially Zhuangzi’s—and Stoic philosophies. For Zhuangzi, a flourishing life requires a holistic acceptance of the unive...

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Presence and Encounter: Martin Buber and Marina Abramović

This paper explores the phenomena of human encounter and co-presence through a dialogue between Marina Abramović’s performance The Artist is Present and Martin Buber’s ontology of I-You and I-It re...

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Presence and Encounter: Martin Buber and Marina Abramović

This paper explores the phenomena of human encounter and co-presence through a dialogue between Marina Abramović’s performance The Artist is Present and Martin Buber’s ontology of I-You and I-It re...

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Enchanted Polyphony: Agency and the Musicality of Natural Being

This article seeks to develop a phenomenological model of non-human agency through an account of music. It shows how the denial of agency to non-human entities, which lies at the core of the modern...

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Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature

Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 12, No. 2, 2025)

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The Aesthetics of Artistic Language and its Cognitive Value: Echoes from Cassirer

Philosophical worries about the capacity of language to represent our reality are as old as Plato’s attack on poets. Within analytic philosophy such worries have contributed either to the negative ...

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Philosophy and Sociology in Bourdieu’s Conception of Symbolic Forms

The article examines Bourdieu’s repurposing of Cassirer’s notion of symbolic forms in the context of his sociological paradigm. After outlining the meaning of ‘symbolic’ in Bourdieu’s work, I recon...

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Cassirer’s Archeological Approach to Aesthetics

To help understand what prevented Cassirer from writing a philosophy of art as an organic part of his philosophy of symbolic forms, this paper proposes to go back to the studies in which Cassirer a...

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What’s Wrong with Experience? On John Dewey’s and Susanne K. Langer’s Theories of Art (with a Glance at Ernst Cassirer)

Susanne K. Langer’s relation to John Dewey was fraught. Even though his thinking is remarkably close to hers in many aspects, she hardly ever acknowledges this proximity; when she more than mention...

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Symbol, Myth, and Morphology: Cassirer beyond Nature and Culture

The article examines Ernst Cassirer’s late work, An Essay on Man, exploring its significance beyond merely summarizing his earlier Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, and investigates the interplay betwe...

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Architectural Types as Symbolic Forms

In architecture, typology is understood as a regulative principle for design that is interwoven with history and the respective context. It arises in opposition to the literal concept of imitation,...

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The Transformation of Cassirer’s Legacy: Cornelius Castoriadis on the Symbolic and Art

In this paper, I will discuss essential aspects of Castoriadis’ philosophy that can be related to Cassirer’s conceptions of symbol and imagination. The aim is not to reconstruct the antecedents of ...

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Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice

Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2025)

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The Phenomenology of Japanese Dry Stone Gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”

The phenomenology of Japanese dry landscape gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”“Phenomenology,” says Lisa Guenther, “begins with a description of lived experience and reflects on ...

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Living in Art: Interior Design and Artistic Experience

In this article, I argue that interior design is paradigmatic for our understanding of art more broadly. Key to my argument is the phenomenological structure of inhabitation, for what distinguishes...

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In Search of New Life: Literature in Gilles Deleuze’s Vitalistic Philosophy

In this paper, I examine the role of literature in 20th-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s vitalistic philosophy, insofar as he defines it is an ‘enterprise of health’ that transports one ...

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Gadamer and the Topology of Aesthetics

Gadamer’s account of aesthetic experience emerges primarily from his engagement with Kant and Heidegger. Gadamer pushes back against the subjectivism of the Neo-Kantians, where aesthetic judgement ...

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Immanent and Symbolic Functions of Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl’s Phantasy and Image Consciousness (1904/05)

This paper aims to contribute to understanding Edmund Husserl’s early theory of imagination by examining the immanent function and the symbolic function of image consciousness in Phantasy and Image...

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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology

Publishes innovative research in aesthetics that draws from the phenomenological tradition, as well as its close connections with the arts and culture.

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Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 2024)

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Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense

Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 2024)

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The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s Phenomenology

In the final years of his life, the Belgian phenomenologist Marc Richir started to question if philosophical writing would become pointless when artists, great poets for example, have already achie...

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A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic Experience

This paper aims to pay tribute to Figal’s comprehensive and innovative analysis of the artwork and beauty, while challenging both his realist position on the immediacy of meaning and his monist sta...

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Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of Enchantment

This paper engages in a comparative study between the vital materialism in the works of political theorist Jane Bennett (primarily, The Enchantment of Modern Life) and the ontology of flesh in the ...

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