78 | 2021
The Senses of Smell: Scents, Odors and Aromatic Spaces
Although recent years have seen a growing philosophical interest in smell, aesthetic research on it still covers a relatively small domain, confinedto a niche. The present issue deals with smell as a very serious philosophical issue, in some cases even as a vector of a whole philosophical project.The papers here collected show how olfaction, odors, fragrances and, more in general, the aerial dimension of being and knowing cover a huge range of problems that even exceeds the aesthetic domain in its conventional sense. This is why readers will not find papers written exclusively by professional philosophers, but also by curators, artists, perfumers and semiologists.The relationship between smell, cognition and aesthetic experience, the use of odors in the arts and their symbolic meanings, and the socio-ontological and socio-aesthetic engagement through the ethical and political implications of smell are some of the topics the essays tackle through different approaches and perspectives.
Note della redazione
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Introduction [Testo integrale]
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Opening the Way for an Olfactory Aesthetics: Smell’s Cognitive Powers [Testo integrale]
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Objective smells and partial perspectives [Testo integrale]
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The perfume and the spirit: from religion to perfumery [Testo integrale]
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Re-humanizing Smell: A Conversation [Testo integrale]
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Ontological Anosmia [Testo integrale]
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OSMODRAMA – Theatre for the Nose [Testo integrale]
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Towards a Sociopolitical Aesthetics of Smell [Testo integrale]
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varia
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Lettura e non-lettura secondo Simone Weil [Testo integrale]
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Enopé. Voce e volto dell’arte [Testo integrale]
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La responsabilità ecologica [Testo integrale]
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