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21Collectors, Collecting and Non-collectibles. Between Everyday Aesthetics and AestheticismEspes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 10 (2): 134-150. 2021.Collecting goes beyond art collecting and seems to meet a more general need. Although it originally aided survival and has predecessors in the animal world, the gesture of collecting has complex motivations. After exploring the collector’s psychology and the behavioural differences between collectors and spectators, this paper analyses the logic of collecting and its principles: order, variation, attractive and meaningful display, the control of contingency, processuality and growth, seriality, …Read more
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De imagine Europae. Von rumänischen RandbewohnernPolylog. 2004.Mădălina Diaconus Beitrag zum Bild Europas in Rumänien zieht in Betracht hauptsächlich kulturphilosophische Interpretationen seit dem Beginn des Modernisierungsprozesses in Rumänien vor etwa 150 Jahren. Vor dem Krieg überwogen die Spekulationen über eine „rumänische Seele“ und die Forderung der Synchronisierung mit der Entwicklung der westlichen Institutionen und Werte. Diese Diskussionen wurden nach 1989 wieder aufgenommen und beweisen, dass das Selbstbewusstsein der Rumänen, ein integraler Tei…Read more
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8Being and Making the Olfactory Self. Lessons from Contemporary Artistic PracticesIn Nicola Di Stefano & Maria Teresa Russo (eds.), Olfaction: An Interdisciplinary Perspective From Philosophy to Life Sciences, Springer Verlag. pp. 55-73. 2021.Contemporary smelly artworks, installations and “scent sculptures” endorse philosophical and anthropological theories about the construction of identity as a relation to oneself and the others through consciousness and memory, as a multi-staged process of social exchange, as a game of risk and trust in making one’s own identity, and as a dialectics of agency and passivity. It is well-known that topophilic emplacement contributes to identity; olfactory site-specific installations and practices “p…Read more
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Arnold Berleant: Re-thinking Aesthetics und Arnold Berleant: Aesthetics and Environment (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 58 (4). 2005.
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A Referate uber deutschsprachige Neuerscheinungen-Tasten, Riechen, Schmecken-eine Asthetik der anasthesierten SinnePhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 59 (3): 269. 2006.
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1Aesthetics of the public space and the urban ethosIn Mădălina Diaconu & Miloš Ševčík (eds.), Aesthetics revisited: tradition and perspectives in Austria and the Czech Republic, Global [distributor]. 2011.
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9Aesthetics revisited: tradition and perspectives in Austria and the Czech Republic (edited book)Global [distributor]. 2011.The volume represents a selection of the articles which were presented at a colloquium on new research topics in aesthetics at the Austrian Library in Pilsen in September 2010. Their authors, Czech and Austrian scholars, address various topics, ranging from the institutional history of aesthetics to the relationship between philosophical aesthetics and psychology, and from the philosophy of literature to the aesthetics of fine arts, dramatic arts, and architecture.
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462MĂDĂLINA DIACONU, Tasten, Riechen, Schmecken. Eine Ästhetik der anästhesierten Sinne, 2005 ; SILVIA STOLLER, VERONICA VASTERLING,LINDA FISHER, Feministische Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik, 2005 ; KARL SCHUHMANN, Karl Schuhmann: Selected Papers on Phenomenology. Edited by CEES LEIJENHORST and PIET STEENBAKKERS, 2004 ; HIROSHI GOTO, Der Begriff der Person in der PhänomenologieHusserls. Ein Interpretationsversuch der Husserlschen Phänomenologie als Ethik im Hinblick auf den Begriff der Habitualität…Read more
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173Introduction: Phenomenology of Animality. Challenges and PerspectivesStudia Phaenomenologica 17 11-17. 2017.
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16Introduction: Phenomenology of Animality: Challenges and PerspectivesStudia Phaenomenologica 17 11-17. 2017.
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330Book reviews (Martin HEIDEGGER, Reden und andere Zeugnisse eines Lebensweges; ..., etc.) (review)Studia Phaenomenologica 1 (1): 319-435. 2001."Gabriel Cercel: Martin HEIDEGGER, Reden und andere Zeugnisse eines Lebensweges; Attila Szigeti: Emmanuel LEVINAS, Positivité et transcendance. Suivi de Lévinas et la phenomenology; Cristian Ciocan: Jean-Luc MARION, Crucea vizibilului; Gabriel Cercel: Mădălina DIACONU, Blickumkehr. Mit Martin Heidegger zu einer relationalen ästhetik; Cristina Ionescu: Mark WRATHALL, Jeff MALPAS, Essays in Honour of Hubert L. Dreyfus; Cristian Ciocan: Ion COPOERU, Aparenţă şi sens. Repere ale fenomenologiei const…Read more