Bücher der Reihe Atmospheric Spaces

The contagious joy of a party, the solemn silence in a church, thegloomy atmosphere of endless rows of identical houses in an ugly city.Through a criticism of the reification and psychologization that goesback to the very beginning of Western philosophy, Hermann Schmitz offers a fundamentally new theory of embodiment and feelings based onatmospheres, unstable but powerful phenomena that fill the "surfacelessspaces" of lived experience. This collection of essays, selected bySchmitz himself, offers a comprehensive portrait of his theory, both inits fundamental outlines and later progress.