"With impressive erudition and energy, Tonino Griffero explores in this book the complexly subtle, important, but too often neglected role of atmospheres in aesthetics. Places, Affordances, Atmospheres: A Pathic Aesthetics is an expert treatise offering new perspectives in phenomenological aesthetics." - Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics
"Tonino Griffero takes over where some authors of my generation left a debate about "Atmosphere" (and "Stimmung") as a concept of aesthetic appreciation and analysis that had emerged and developed momentum since the late twentieth century. If we were mainly concerned with finding and fine tuning a level of abstraction required for theoretical pursuits, Griffero has reinserted the word into the intellectual environment around 1900. Surprisingly and convincingly, this "translatio" adds new philosophical complexity and even a political edge to a discussion that seemed to have reached its limits - and is now reset for a new start under different premises." - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Emeritus Stanford University
"Tonino Griffero takes over where some authors of my generation left a debate about "Atmosphere" (and "Stimmung") as a concept of aesthetic appreciation and analysis that had emerged and developed momentum since the late twentieth century. If we were mainly concerned with finding and fine tuning a level of abstraction required for theoretical pursuits, Griffero has reinserted the word into the intellectual environment around 1900. Surprisingly and convincingly, this "translatio" adds new philosophical complexity and even a political edge to a discussion that seemed to have reached its limits - and is now reset for a new start under different premises." - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Emeritus Stanford University