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- English
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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.
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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
as co...
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