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Volume 1 / 2009

Edited by Fabian Dorsch

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Table of Contents

Morten Kyndrup Aesthetics and Its Future — Problems and Perspectives 1-16
Ludger Schwarte The Birth of Aesthetics from the Spirit of Experimentalism    17-36
Paolo Spinicci Portraits: Some Phenomenological Remarks 37-59
Pauline von Bonsdorff   Aesthetics of Childhood — Phenomenology and Beyond 60-76
John Zeimbekis Pictures as Incomplete Representations* (Newer Version) 77-98

* This paper has subsequently been published elsewhere. Please cite the linked newer version.

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