Springer Phenomenology and the Arts: Logos and Aisthesis: 109 (Contributions to Phenomenology, 109)

Product Description This volume examines the great varieties of artistic experience from first hand phenomenological descriptions. It features detailed and concrete analyses which provides readers with in-depth insights into each specific domain of artistic experience. Coverage includes phenomenological elucidation of the aesthetic attitude, the power of imagination, and the logic of sensibility. The essays also detail concrete phenomenological analyses of aesthetic experiences in poetry, painting, photography, drama, architecture, and urban aesthetics. The book contains essays from "Logos and Aisthesis: Phenomenology and the Arts," an international conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It brings together a team of top scholars from both the East and the West and offers readers a global perspective on this interesting topic. These innovative, yet accessible, essays, will benefit students and researchers in philosophy, aesthetics, the arts, and the humanities. They will also be of interest to specialists in phenomenology. Review   Review   From the Back Cover This volume examines the great varieties of artistic experience from first hand phenomenological descriptions. It features detailed and concrete analyses which provides readers with in-depth insights into each specific domain of artistic experience. Coverage includes phenomenological elucidation of the aesthetic attitude, the power of imagination, and the logic of sensibility. The essays also detail concrete phenomenological analyses of aesthetic experiences in poetry, painting, photography, drama, architecture, and urban aesthetics. The book contains essays from "Logos and Aisthesis: Phenomenology and the Arts," an international conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It brings together a team of top scholars from both the East and the West and offers readers a global perspective on this interesting topic. These innovative, yet accessible, essays, will benefit students and researchers in philosophy, aesthetics, the arts, and the humanities. They will also be of interest to specialists in phenomenology. About the Author Kwok-ying lau is Professor and Director of MA in Philosophy Program, Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Director of Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology (CUHK); Founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (in Chinese; author of Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding. Toward a New Cultural Flesh (Springer: 2016) and Traces of French Phenomenology : from Sartre to Derrida (in Chinese, Taipei: Azoth Books, forthcoming, Fall, 2017). Thomas Nenon is Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Memphis, USA; President, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Corp.; Co-editor of Edmund Husserl, Husserliana, Vol. XXV:  Aufsätze und Vorträge 1911‑21 (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1987), Edmund Husserl, Husserliana, Vol. XXVII:  Aufsätze und Vorträge 1922‑37 (Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1989), H usserl’s Ideen (Springer, 2012) and Advancing Phenomenology: Essays in Honor of Lester Embree (Springer: 2010).