Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics

Zoltán Somhegyi, Max Ryynänen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004747388 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on one of the all-time primary interests of all researchers—finding new perspectives and research topics—and expands it. What new routes could aesthetics, philosophy of art and the aesthetic take today and in the future? Thirteen authors open new doors for the discipline to new companion disciplines, new discussions, and new concepts. Heritage studies, Greek aesthetic concepts, found literature, power, safety and mythology, monuments, artificial intelligence, sensibility, hybrid spaces, textiles, aesthetics of AI, aesthetics of literature, aesthetic values, homo ludens and martial arts studies are approached in new ways in this volume, where the spearhead lies in thinking about the next step of the ancient discipline of aesthetics and what potential it could have for the world of research in the future.

Zoltán Somhegyi an art historian with a Ph.D. in Aesthetics and a Habilitation (venia legendi) in Philosophy, and is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Szeged. As a researcher, he is especially focusing on questions of the aesthetics of ruination and decay as well as environmental aesthetics and landscapes. He is a senior researcher in the project Perspectives in Environmental Aesthetics (2022-2025), and his current research project on Art and Catastrophe – Challenging Aesthetics Around Environmental Destruction is supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences through a three-year grant (2024-2027). Max Ryynänen is Principal Lecturer in Theory of Visual Culture at the School of Arts and Design at Aalto University, and Adjunct Professor (Docent) at the Universities of Helsinki, Jyväskylä and Eastern Finland. His latest books are Realism, Myth, and the Vernacular in Pasolini’s Film and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2024) and A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2023; cowritten with Jozef Kovalčik).

Contents

Series Editors’ Foreword

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

PART 1

Challenging Concepts

1 Aesthetic Power. First Steps toward Somewhat Speculative Sketches

Peter Baumann and Gisela Cramer

2 Humankind’s Playfulness: A Shared Feature in the Philosophies of Oswald de Andrade and Vilém Flusser

Rodrigo Duarte

3 Exploring the Interplay of Aesthetics and Safety

Lenka Piper

4 Found Literature between objet trouvé and Ready-Made

Myriam Ávila

PART 2

Practice and Criticality

5 Martial Arts: A New Topic for Aesthetics?

Max Ryynänen

6 The Art in Monuments

Zoltán Somhegyi

7 The Concept of Techne and Contemporary Artist’s Everyday Practices

Matti Tainio

8 Spinning Resistance: The Aesthetics of Textile Practices

Gabriela Farías Islas

PART 3

New Territories, New Readings

9 Myths and Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature

Saumya Suyal

10 Aesthetic Sensibility as a Capability: A Vehicle to Support When Promoting Socially Just Sustainability Transitions

Noora-Helena Korpelainen

11 Aesthetic Virtues and Gardening

Mateusz Salwa

12 Aesthetics of AI: The Human in the Kaleidoscope of Virtual Doppelgängers

Yvonne Förster

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics ; 1
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	554 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9789004747388 / 9789004747388
Zustand	Neuware