Atmosphere and Aesthetics

Tonino Griffero is Full Professor of Aesthetics at University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Italy.   Marco Tedeschini is post-doc at the Italian Institute for German Studies, Rome, Italy.

• 1. Is There Such a Thing as an “Atmospheric Turn”? Instead of an Introduction.- 2. Atmospheric Spaces.- 3. Atmospheres and Moods: Two Modes of Being-with.- 4. Japanese Atmospheres: Of Sky, Wind, Breathing.- 5. The Atmospheric Sense: Peripheral Perception and the Experience of Space.- 6. Atmosphere, Place, and Phenomenology: Depictions of London Place Settings in the Three Writings by British-African Novelist Doris Lessing.- 7. A Jungly Feeling: the Atmospheric Design of Zoos.- 8. Atmospheric Aeshteses: Law as Affect.- 9. The Lesser Existence of the Ambiance.- 10.Atmosphere and Memory: A Phenomenological Approach.- 11. Atmospheres of Learning, Atmospheric Competence.- 12. Psychopathology, Atmospheres, and Clinical Transformations: Toward a Field-Based Clinical Practice.- 13. The Lightness of Atmospheric Communities.- 14. Smell and Atmosphere.- 15. Atmosphere and Taste, Individual and Environment.- 16. Renga and Atmosphere.- 17. The Atmosphere of Tones: Notions of Atmosphere in Music Scholarship, 1840-1930.- 18. Architecture as Musical Atmosphere.