Jerold J. Abrams
is Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Nebraska. He is the editor of The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick (2007). Recent articles include â2001 as Philosophy,â in The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy (2020); and âAncient Chinese Cave Paintings as Cinema: The Volcanos and Dragons of Mogao Cave 249,â in International Communication of Chinese Culture (2021).
Yvonne Bezrucka
is Professor of English Literature at Verona University in Italy. Recent publications include âNature as Oikos and Kepos,â in crier x (2013), âUtopia, Homeland, Occupiert,â in Polemos (2020), âThe Well-Beloved: Thomas Hardyâs Manifesto of âRegional Aesthetics,ââ in vlc (2008); and The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature (2017).
Else Marie Bukdahl
is Affiliated Professor at the University of Aalborg and former Rector of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts She is the author of Diderot, critique dâart (1980), Johannes Wiedewelt (1993), The Baroque (1998), Caspar David Friedrichâs Study Years at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and his Importance for Danish Art (2005), The Golden Age in Spain (2006), The Re-enchantment of Nature and Urban Space (2011), and The Recurrent Actuality of the Baroque (2017).
Yanping gao (é«ç å¹³)
is Associate Professor in the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. She is the author of Winckelmannâs Vision of Greek Art (in Chinese, 2016), the translator of Suzanne Langerâs Feeling and Form (2013) and Shustermanâs Act and Affect (2018), and coeditor of the (Chinese) journal International Aesthetics (published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences).
Tonino Griffero
is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome âTor Vergataâ in Italy. He is the author of Il corpo spiritual: Ontologie âsottiliâ da Paolo di Tarso a Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (2006), Atmospheres (2014), Il pensiero dei sensi (2016); Quasi-Things (2017), Places, Affordances (2019).
is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. She is the author of Experience of Art, Art of Living (in Polish, 2008), Positioning Taste (in Polish, 2018), and coeditor of Between Aestheticization and Emancipation (in Polish, 2010), Shustermanâs Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics (2012), and Discussing Modernity: A Dialogue with Martin Jay (2013).
Leszek Koczanowicz
is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science in the Faculty of Psychology at the swps University of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Politics of Time (in English, 2008), Modern Fear: Essays on Democracy and its Adversaries (in Polish, 2011, Lek nowoczesny: eseje o demokracji i jej adwersarzach), Politics of Dialogue (in English, 2015), and Anxiety and Lucidity (in English, 2020).
Alexander Kremer
is Habilitated Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Szeged, Hungary. He is the author of Chapters from the History of Western Philosophy from Thales to Hume (in Hungarian, 1997), Why Did Heidegger Become Heidegger? (in Hungarian, 2001), Basic Ethics (in Hungarian, 2004), Philosophy of the Late Richard Rorty (in Hungarian, 2016), and âMartin Heideggerâs Influence on Richard Rortyâs Philosophyâ (in English), in Pragmatism Today, vol. 2, no. 1, summer 2011 (pragmatismtoday.eu). He is Editor-in-Chief of Pragmatism Today, and Head of the Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics.
Diane Richard-Allerdyce
is Chair of the Faculty of the Humanities & Culture (hms) concentration of the Ph.D. Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & University, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is author of Anaïs Nin and the Remaking of Self (1998). Recent work appears in The Journal of Somaesthetics (2017) and the North American Review (2019).
Max Ryynänen
is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland (since 2006). He is, with Falk Heinrich, Coeditor-in-Chief of The Journal of Somaesthetics, and Coeditor of Popular Inquiry (with Jozef Kovalcik). Recent publications include (with Zoltan Somhegyi) Learning from Decay (2018), and âFrom Haunted Ruin to the Most Touristified of All Cities,â in Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments and Memorials (2019).
is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and English, and Director of The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. A select list of his books appears at the end of this volume. The most important books for understanding his approach to pragmatism and somaesthetics include Pragmatist Aesthetics, Practicing Philosophy, Performing Live, Body Consciousness, Thinking through the Body, The Adventures of the Man in Gold, and Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love.
Stefán Snævarr
is Professor of Philosophy at the Inland Norway University in Lillehammer. He is the author Ostraka (Icelandic Edition, 1997), and Metaphors, Narratives, Emotions: Their Interplay and Impact (2010).
Yang lu (éæ¬)
is Professor of Literature in the Department of Chinese at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is the author of Medieval and Renaissance Aesthetics (1999), Derrida and Foucault (2000), An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2006), Aesthetics of Death (2006), and Critique of Aestheticization of Everyday Life (2012). He has also translated several books (fiction and nonfiction), including the Chinese edition of Shustermanâs The Adventures of the Man in Gold.