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Dentofacial aesthetics and quality of life
2007
This article reviews, from the socio-psychological perspective on physical attractiveness, recent research on the psychosocial impacts of dental aesthetics. Research on personal impression forming suggests that visual perceptions of detrimental dental conditions might lead to conclusions about social impairments of the target person. Consumers conform considerably with professional assessment of dental aesthetics. Psychosocial impacts of dental appearance in childhood include teasing by peers. Existing research suggests that dental aesthetics contributes to psychosocial well-being of both children and adults. The concept of public self-consciousness is introduced for explaining differences …
Creativity and Aesthetic Experience: The Problem of the Possibility of Beauty and Sensitiveness
2004
1. CREATIVITY, POETICS AND AESTHETICS Creativity may be regarded as one of the most complicated primary categories of aesthetics, and one that is most closely connected with such traditional aesthetic categories as beauty, for instance. The fulfilment of creative work is most visible in a work of art and refers to aesthetics as a sphere of expression/manifestation. Any discussion between an artist and an art philosopher or an art critic turns into a contention of a sort concerning the question of what comes first – manifestation or perception and evaluation. The view that creative work is feasible in any sphere of cultural activity as well as in science and technology, used to predominate i…
Experience of the City: An Eco-Phenomenological Perspective
2018
The field of ecological philosophy is a quite young field, encompassing Erazim Kohak’s environmental ethics and Arne Naess’ concepts of deep ecology and ecosophy, David Seamon’s phenomenological ecology, Ted Toadvine’s, Charles S. Brown’s, David Wood’s eco-phenomenological investigations, and, above all, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s phenomenology of life. At the same time, the theme of urban phenomenology taps deeply into Martin Heidegger’s conception of authentic dwelling (disruptions of dwelling may be exposed as symptoms of ecological crisis, and authentic dwelling as a possible remedy for that). Jean-Paul Sartre’s notion of the For-Itself (especially its spatializing/spatialized character)…
Mostrar y decir. Una diferencia estética
2016
This article defends that Wittgenstein's distinction between showing and saying and the critical thesis associated with it, i.e: that what is shown can't be said, is crucial to understand not only his first philosophy but even his second one; and not only his philosophy of language but also his Aesthetics.
Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability
2019
Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment is a stimulating collection of essays that seeks to emphasize and explicate the socially situated nature of aesthetic-moral judgment. The socially accentuated a...
The Disorienting Aesthetics of Mashed-Up Anthropocene Environments
2022
This paper describes the disorienting aesthetics of some environments that are characteristic of the Anthropocene. We refer to these environments as 'mashed-up' and present three dimensions - phenomenological, epistemological and narrative - of the aesthetic disorientation they can trigger. We then advance the suggestion that a rich, nuanced and meaningful aesthetic experience of mashed-up Anthropocene environments (MAEs) calls for a mode of appreciation grounded on performative practices of aesthetic familiarisation with particular MAEs and entities and processes thereof. Familiarisation with MAEs, we further note, can have disorienting codas of its own. It can reveal and highlight, rather…
Crossmodal Aesthetics: How Music and Dance Can Match
2020
Abstract The relationship between music and dance can sometimes be a ‘match’, a remarkable fit between the audible manifestation that music is and the visual or kinaesthetic manifestation that dance is. A match between two things seems to require a common measure with respect to which the match obtains. What can this be for two so different phenomena as music and dance? I argue that the most promising answer is: movement. This answer will not be satisfactory unless the movement of music and the movement of dance are the same on some level. I suggest that they are: there are qualities of movement that guide both dancers and musicians when producing dance and music as perceptible phenomena. B…
Percezione e immagine
2006
Il titolo individua un argomento che per la sua vastità, qualunque sia il taglio con cui si decide di affrontarlo, risulta impossibile nelle logiche spazio-temporali di un convegno. È stato affettuosamente “estorto”, ma innanzi tempo, quando foggetto doveva ancora essere concepito. Si sa: le parole hanno la capacità, con piccoli aggiustamenti, di adattarsi a cose diverse e apparire, di volta in volta, persino appropriate, come se fossero state ritagliate proprio per quella o quel- raltra cosa...
Can the Excluded Criticize? On the (Im)possibilities of Formulating and Understanding Critique
2021
If critique does not want to be more than just a ‘passion of the head’ it has to engage in dialogue with the worst-off in society. However, there are several mechanisms that hinder the excluded fro...