cognition

Interview. (Post)Modern Aesthetics on Trial: Revisiting a Century of Avant-Gardes

Aleš Erjavec, Oana Șerban   Abstract   This interview is inspired the most important working-hypothesis presented in the volume Aesthetic Revolutions and the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements, edited by Aleš Erjavec, that questions the legitimacy of the distinction between aesthetic and artistic avant-gardes, supported by the relationship of each concept with the modern revolutionary politics. The … [Read more…]

No Feeling without Cognition. Moses Mendelssohn’s Analysis of Pleasant Sentiments in The Briefe Über Die Empfindungen

Guillem Sales Vilalta   Abstract Mendelssohn’s second work, the Briefe über die Empfindungen (Letters on Sentiments), has mainly to do with sentiments experimented by human subjects. Nevertheless, the generalist, broad scope of the title might bring about some confusion: the work is not devoted to sentiments in general, but to sentiments of pleasure in particular. … [Read more…]