Atmospheres

Auteur

Hermann Schmitz (Leipzig 1928 - Kiel 2021) is known as the founder of New Phenomenology and for his philosophy of the felt body ("Leib") and atmospheres. Author of an ambitious and far reaching "System of Philosophy" in ten volumes (1964-1980), he kept elaborating on his fundamental insights on atmospheres, feelings, space, felt body and consciousness in more than fifty volumes and many essays. Among the more recent ones: "Jenseits des Naturalismus" (2010), "Der Leib" (2011), "Gibt es die Welt?" (2014), "Ausgrabungen zum wiklichen Leben" (2016), "Sich selbst verstehen. Ein Lesebuch" (2021), and "Kurze Einführung in die Neue Phänomenologie" (2009), translated into English as "New Phenomenology: An Introduction" (Mimesis International 2014).

Texte du rabat

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