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The Aesthetics of Atmospheres (Hardcover)
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The Aesthetics of Atmospheres (Hardcover)
Series: Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
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Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban
ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this
field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Boehme whose
influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they
function has been only partially available to the English-speaking
public. This translation of key essays along with an original
introduction charts the development of Gernot Boehme's philosophy
of atmospheres and how it can be applied in various contexts such
as scenography, commodity aesthetics, advertising, architecture,
design, and art. The phenomenological analysis of atmospheres has
proved very fruitful and its most important, and successful,
application has been within aesthetics. The material background of
this success may be seen in the ubiquitous aestheticization of our
lifeworld, or from another perspective, of the staging of
everything, every event and performance. The theory of atmospheres
becoming an aesthetic theory thus reveals the theatrical, not to
say manipulative, character of politics, commerce, of the
event-society. But, taken as a positive theory of certain
phenomena, it offers new perspectives on architecture, design, and
art. It made the spatial and the experience of space and places a
central subject and hence rehabilitated the ephemeral in the arts.
Taking its numerous impacts in many fields together, it initiated a
new humanism: the individual as a living person and his or her
perspective are taken seriously, and this fosters the ongoing
democratization of culture, in particular the possibility for
everybody to participate in art and its works.
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