SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

The Paradigm of Atmospheres

Tonino Griffero, Sarah De Sanctis, Sarah De Sanctis

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781438464077
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Phenomenology in Philosophy

In this book, Tonino Griffero introduces and analyzes an ontological category he terms "quasi-things." These do not exist fully in the traditional sense as substances or events, yet they powerfully act on us and on our states of mind. He offers an original approach to the study of emotions, regarding them not as inner states of the subject, but as atmospheres, that is as powers poured out into the lived space we inhabit. Griffero first outlines the general and atmospheric characters of quasi-things, and then considers examples such as pain, shame, the gaze, and twilight—which he argues is responsible for penetrating and suggestive moods precisely because of its vagueness. With frequent examples from literature and everyday life, Quasi-Things provides an accessible aesthetic and phenomenological account of feelings based on the paradigm of atmospheres.

Index

Numbers in italics refer to footnotes

Achelis, J. D., 141

active (actual, wirklich), ix, xvi, xix, 12, 16, 23, 32, 34, 40, 42, 73, 94, 109–110, 148

Adorno, T. W., 70, 75, 137, 153

aesthetics, vii–x, xx–xxi, 39, 52, 67, 107, 118

classic, viii

pathic, vii–x, xx, xxi, 39

work, ix, 14, 49–50, 111

affordance, xiii–xiv, xxi, 9, 26, 37, 40, 53, 60, 94, 96

Aggerer, W., 53

Albers, J., 11, 128

Ammann, H., 119

anchoring point, 42–43

Andermann, K., 115

Anders, G., 86, 142

anger, 16, 25, 86, 121, 138, 143, 146

anguish, 34, 63, 99, 135–136

Anolli, L., 144, 146–147

Antonelli, E., 142

Antonioni, M., 154

appearance (phenomenon), viii–ix, xii, xvii, xix, 2–3, 5, 10–14, 20, 35, 37, 46, 48–50, 60, 84, 94–95, 105, 107, 117, 119, 130, 148, 152

Aristotle, 120, 138, 142, 144, 147

Arnheim, R., 109, 152, 156

associationism, ix, xiii, xiv, 44, 63

atmospheres

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• One Quasi-Things Come and Go and We Cannot Wonder Where They’ve Been (Starting from the Wind)
• Two Quasi-Things Assault and Resist Us: Feelings as Atmospheres
• Three Quasi-Things Are Felt (though Not Localized): The Isles of the Felt-Body
• Four Quasi-Things Are Proofs of Existence: Pain as the Genesis of the Subject
• Five Quasi-Things Affect Us (Also Indirectly): Vicarious Shame
• Six Quasi-Things Communicate with Us: From the Gaze to the Portrait (and Back)
• Seven Quasi-Things Are the More Effective the Vaguer They Are: Twilightness
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover