Georg Simmel, philosopher and sociologist in the Berlin of 1900, repeatedly searched for a conception of anaesthesia – ”Blasiertheit” – capable of addressing a reality of consumption, money and metrop
Aestheticians routinely wrestle with the asymmetry between aesthetic appreciation and “natural” beauty. In these pages, I develop the “Aesthetic Enchantment Approach” (AEA), which aims to reduce “aest
The early German Romantics Novalis and Johann Wilhelm Ritter interpret Klangfiguren (“sound figures,” known most commonly as “Chladni Figures”) as representing the universal language of nature, with s