The Aesthetic Theory of Gernot Bühme and Gestalt Phenomenology

• Authors: Cattaruzza Serena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Gernot Böhme’s original proposal regarding an aesthetic as a philosophic theory of perceptual knowledge could, in our opinion, be usefully compared with certain aspects, historical-theoretical and methodological, of Gestalt psychology. From an historical point of view there is the attention commonly paid to the work of the 18th-century philosopher, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, considered as an important precursor of the study of sensitive knowledge, while the subsequent basic themes of the perceptualcognitive approach, of the expressive qualities, of the distinction “physical reality /actual reality,” of the physiognomic problem, to cite but a few, recall nuclear questions, although perhaps not traditionally included in the “major canon”—to use a terminological proposal of Rocco Ronchi’s—of philosophy and specifically of experimental phenomenology.

Keywords

EN

Gernot Böhme; Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten; sensitive knowledge; presence; atmosphere; physiognomic qualities; one’s own body

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 167-176

Contributors

author

Cattaruzza Serena

• “Gaetano Kanizsa” Psychology Unit, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste. Via Valerio, Building RA, 34100 Trieste, Italy