ESPES  

Onerva Kiianlinna,Joonas Kurjenmiekka

One of the aims of Aesthetics is to understand aesthetic experience, that of our own and that of others. Yet, the underlying question of how we can get information about other people’s aesthetic experience has not been granted enough attention. This artic... see more

Kalle Puolakka

This discussion piece raises some worries in the view Yuriko Saito develops in her Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life (2022), on the role of aesthetics in fostering a way of life, which is infused by a particular kind of care towards the world.... see more

Botond Csuka

Book review of Dadejík, O., Kaplický, M., Ševcík, M., and Zuska, V. (2021) Process and Aesthetics: An Outline of Whiteheadian Aesthetics and Beyond. Prague: Karolinum Press. ISBN 978-80-246-4726-5.

Zuzana Slušná

Book review of KOPCÁKOVÁ, Slávka, (Ed.) – ORINÁKOVÁ, Slávka – ZUBAL, Pavol (2021) Tobias Gottfried Schröer (1791-1850). Estetika ako vízia lepšieho cloveka. [Tobias Gottfried Schroer (1791-1850). Aesthetics as a vision of a better person.] Prešov: Univers... see more

Damián Michalco

Book review of Sucharek, P. (2020) Udalost, prázdno, otvorenie: Henri Maldiney a fenomenológia umenia. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta. ISBN 978-80-555-2612-6.

David Konstan

Greek and Roman literature has bequeathed us a variety of perspectives on old age. Old age, in ancient times before there were palliatives for pain and devices to compensate for failing sense, such as eyeglasses and hearing aids, could be painful and humi... see more

Ken-ichi Sasaki

Ageing is basically a natural or physical phenomenon. For a human being, it belongs to the body. When this fact is noticed, a drama of oldness and life/death begins: ageing is a problem of experience. There are losses and gains in this experience. Indeed,... see more

Arnold Berleant,Michael Alpert,Valery Vino

In April 2021, longing to learn first-hand about ageing philosophically, Valery Vino reached out to the legendary Arnold Berleant (who was 89 at the time of writing), to see whether he might be interested in recording a dialogue to this theme, with a comp... see more

John Carvalho

In this essay, I account for what we mean by old, what it means to grow old, and what we might mean by a shared achievement in the case of growing old together. I turn to the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz for some early insights on the shared time embodi... see more

Valery Vinogradovs

Preface of the ESPES.The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics symposium on Aesthetics and Ageing.

Babette Babich

Beginning with the representation of age in extremis in the nature morte or still life, a depiction of aged artifacts and representations of vanitas, artistic representations particularly in painting associate woman and death. Looking at artistic allegori... see more

Doron Avital,Karolina Dolanska