Nahlowsky’s Psychological Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9467280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Romand (University Paris Diderot - Paris 7, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-36 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayx044 |
| OpenAlex | W2803494610 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
My article aims to revisit the aesthetic thought of the Austrian psychologist and philosopher Joseph Wilhelm Nahlowsky (1812–1885), as expounded in his formerly famous monograph Das Gefühlsleben. I show that although Nahlowsky was a direct heir of Herbart, his ideas were in keeping with both the contemporary debate about form and content and the then-emerging paradigm of psychological aesthetics. I describe his developments on aesthetic feelings and his remarkable attempt to elaborate a general psycho-affective theory on the experience of the aesthetic object. I also discuss the importance of the notion of form, inherited from Herbart, in his psychological aesthetics. Finally, I demonstrate that, in addition to having marked an ‘affective’ turn in Herbartianism, Nahlowsky was a key actor in the evolution of ideas in psychological aesthetics in the second half of the nineteenth century
Aesthetic experience · Aesthetic theory · Aesthetics · Content (measure theory · Epistemology · Feeling · Key (lock · Object (grammar · Psychoanalysis · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |