Phenomenology and the Arts: Logos and Aisthesis

Kwok-ying lau is Professor and Director of MA in Philosophy Program, Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Director of Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology (CUHK); Founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (in Chinese; author of Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding. Toward a New Cultural Flesh (Springer: 2016) and Traces of French Phenomenology : from Sartre to Derrida (in Chinese, Taipei: Azoth Books, forthcoming, Fall, 2017). Thomas Nenon is Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Memphis, USA; President, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Corp.; Co-editor of Edmund Husserl, Husserliana, Vol. XXV: Aufsätze und Vorträge 1911_21 (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1987), Edmund Husserl, Husserliana, Vol. XXVII: Aufsätze und Vorträge 1922_37 (Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1989), Husserl's Ideen (Springer, 2012) and Advancing Phenomenology: Essays in Honor of Lester Embree (Springer: 2010).

Part I. Phenomenological Approach to Art.- Chapter 1. Aesthetic Attitude and Phenomenological Attitude: From Zhu Guangqian to Husserl (Kwok-ying Lau).- Chapter 2. An Husserlian Account of the Power of the Imaginary (Thomas Nenon).- Chapter 3. Art and Experience: Reflections on Heidegger's 'Origin of the Work of Art' (Dermot Moran).- Part II. Varieties of Artistic Experience.- Chapter 4. Aisthesis and Logos - One or Two? Two Kindred Poems by Qianlong Di and Goethe (Elmar Holenstein).- Chapter 5. Seeing the Invisible: Kandinsky and the Multi-Dimensionality of Colors (Junichi Murata).- Chapter 6. The Specificity of Medium: Painting and Thinking in Merleau-Ponty's Eye and Mind (Nicolas de Warren).- Chapter 7. Theatre as a Scene of Otherness (Bernhard Waldenfels).- Chapter 8. The Figuration of Time: Rhythm and Metaphor in Dramatic Language (Kwok-Kui Wong).- Chapter 9. Emptiness and the Spiritual in Architecture (Jung-Sun Han Heuer).- Chapter 10. Digital Technology, Urban Aesthetics,and Phenomenology (Jong-Kwan Lee).- Chapter 11. Re-presenting Earthscape: Towards a Phenomenology of Aerial Photographic Art (Chan-Fai Cheung).- Part III. Logic of Sensibility.- Chapter 12. How much Logos is there in Aisthesis? Aristotle's Phenomenology of Perception (Emmanuel Alloa).- Chapter 13. Seeing and Touching: The Optic and the Haptic in Merleau-Ponty's Thought (Pierre Rodrigo).- Chapter 14. Toward the Phenomenology of Aesthetic Instinct Developed through a Dialogue with F. Schiller (Nam-In Lee).