1st Edition

The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Consciousness and Phantasy Working with Husserl

By Paul Crowther Copyright 2022
188 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a unified and innovative account of aesthetic consciousness. He also shows how Husserl’s ideas can be developed to solve problems in aesthetics, especially those related to visual art, literature, theatre, and nature. After outlining the major... Read more

Introduction: Husserl’s Phenomenology and Phenomenological Aesthetics

Chapter 1. The Scope of Aesthetic Consciousness

Chapter 2. The Phenomenology of Visual Representation

Chapter 3. Aesthetic Form and the Phenomenological Reduction

Chapter 4. The Phenomenology of Literature, Theatre, and Music

Final Review: And Some Glimpses of the Digital…

Biography

Paul Crowther is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland Galway, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published many monographs on phenomenology and the arts, most recently The Aesthetics of Self-Becoming: How Art Forms Empower, Routledge (2019)

"This much needed study does a masterful job of knitting together Husserl’s texts on art and aesthetic consciousness and of showing how relevant they are for addressing the fundamental questions of aesthetics."

John Brough, Georgetown University, USA