Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge)

The Phenomenology of Japanese Dry Stone Gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing” The phenomenology of Japanese dry landscape gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”“Phenomenology,” says Lisa Guenther, “begins with a description of lived experience and reflects on ...

The Phenomenology of Japanese Dry Stone Gardens: Aesthetic and Contemplative “Ways of Seeing”
- Leesa S. Davis

Living in Art: Interior Design and Artistic Experience In this article, I argue that interior design is paradigmatic for our understanding of art more broadly. Key to my argument is the phenomenological structure of inhabitation, for what distinguishes...

"Living in Art: Interior Design and Artistic Experience"
- Caleb Faul

In Search of New Life: Literature in Gilles Deleuze’s Vitalistic Philosophy In this paper, I examine the role of literature in 20th-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s vitalistic philosophy, insofar as he defines it is an ‘enterprise of health’ that transports one ...

"In Search of New Life: Literature in Gilles Deleuze's Vitalistic Philosophy"
- Sean Winkler

Gadamer and the Topology of Aesthetics Gadamer’s account of aesthetic experience emerges primarily from his engagement with Kant and Heidegger. Gadamer pushes back against the subjectivism of the Neo-Kantians, where aesthetic judgement ...

"Gadamer and the Topology of Aesthetics'
- Sam McAuliffe

Immanent and Symbolic Functions of Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl’s Phantasy and Image Consciousness (1904/05) This paper aims to contribute to understanding Edmund Husserl’s early theory of imagination by examining the immanent function and the symbolic function of image consciousness in Phantasy and Image...

Immanent and Symbolic Functions of Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl’s Phantasy and Image Consciousness (1904/05)
- Pia Cordero

Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Publishes innovative research in aesthetics that draws from the phenomenological tradition, as well as its close connections with the arts and culture.

New issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2025

with works by: Pia Cordero, Sam McAuliffe, Sean Winkler, Caleb Faul, Leesa S. Davis, Ian Tan

Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 2024)

Book Review: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Tom Marshall

Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense Published in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 2024)

Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
- A dialogue with Richard Kearney and Jeffrey Bernstein

The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s Phenomenology In the final years of his life, the Belgian phenomenologist Marc Richir started to question if philosophical writing would become pointless when artists, great poets for example, have already achie...

The Moment of the Sublime in Marc Richir’s Phenomenology
- Ming Hon Chu

A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic Experience This paper aims to pay tribute to Figal’s comprehensive and innovative analysis of the artwork and beauty, while challenging both his realist position on the immediacy of meaning and his monist sta...

A Response to Günter Figal’s Aesthetic Monism: Phenomenological Sublimity and the Genesis of Aesthetic Experience
- Irene Breuer

Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of Enchantment This paper engages in a comparative study between the vital materialism in the works of political theorist Jane Bennett (primarily, The Enchantment of Modern Life) and the ontology of flesh in the ...

Jane Bennett and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Phenomenology of Enchantment
- Yue Jennifer Wang

Negativity and Zwischen: An Account of Byung-Chul Han’s Aesthetics Byung-Chul Han’s reflections on aesthetics are heavily influenced by Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutic reading of phenomenology and the theses of his Doktormutter, Utte Guzzoni, on the mutual determin...

Negativity and Zwischen: An Account of Byung-Chul Han’s Aesthetics
- Alberto Morán Roa

Blumenberg and the Mythology of the Lifeworld: A Deconstructive Reading of Husserl’s Phenomenology This paper argues that Hans Blumenberg’s theory illuminates a novel interpretation of the phenomenological concept of the lifeworld—as a world sustained by myths and their receptions. This paper co...

Blumenberg and the Mythology of the Lifeworld: A Deconstructive Reading of Husserl’s Phenomenology
- Yutong Li

As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty When we talk about natural beauty perhaps we think of the products or forces that we commonly associate with nature: rivers, birds, trees, the sky, the moon, the sun, and so on. That is, objects th...

As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales

As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty When we talk about natural beauty perhaps we think of the products or forces that we commonly associate with nature: rivers, birds, trees, the sky, the moon, the sun, and so on. That is, objects th...

As If It Were Nature. A Phenomenological Reading of the Concept of Natural Beauty
- Alfonso Hoyos Morales

How Husserl’s Phenomenology Facilitates Our Grasp of Unfamiliar Artworks This paper explores how phenomenology facilitates people’s grasp of unfamiliar artworks. When avant-garde artworks lack handy categories, meaning-makers unwittingly deploy Edmund Husserl’s phenomen...

How Husserl’s Phenomenology Facilitates Our Grasp of Unfamiliar Artworks
- Sue Spaid

The Aesthetics of the Invisible—At the Margins of Phenomenology The paper focuses on the complex relations between aesthetics and phenomenology as they show themselves within the core locus of their interplay—the realm of the visible and the invisible. To do so...

The Aesthetics of the Invisible—At the Margins of Phenomenology
- Meirav Almog

Art, Rhythm, and the Truth of the Sensible. Henri Maldiney’s Phenomenological Aesthetics In this essay, I will examine Henri Maldiney’s phenomenological aesthetics, focusing on his claim that “art is the truth of the sensible.” This claim is presented by Maldiney in the context of a tw...

Art, Rhythm, and the Truth of the Sensible. Henri Maldiney’s Phenomenological Aesthetics
- Erik Lind

New Special Issue, guest edited by Clive Cazeaux

Volume 11, Issue 1-2
The Relation Between Aesthetics and Phenomenology.

Works by: John Montani, Erik Lind, Meirav Almog, Sue Spaid, Alfonso Morales, Yutong Li, Alberto Roa, Yue Wang, Irene Breuer, Ming Hon Chu
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Rhythm as a Logic of the Sensible World One of the aims of phenomenology was to uncover a logic of the sensible world. This essay shows how rhythm can be understood as a logic of the sensible world and how rhythm is not only a profoundly...

"Rhythm as a Logic of the Sensible World"
- John Montani