Zhuofei Wang

University of Kassel
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    Atmosphären-Ästhetik und interkulturelle Studien
    In Stefan Knauß, Louis Wolfradt, Tim Hofmann & Jens Eberhard (eds.), Auf den Spuren von Anton Wilhelm Amo: Philosophie und der Ruf nach Interkulturalität, Transcript Verlag. pp. 193-206. 2021.
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    Resonance in Atmospheric Design
    Sociétés 27-39. 2023.
    Today, the focus of consumption has been shifting from pure use value to aesthetic-experiential value. Against this backdrop, the concept of design is undergoing a corresponding transformation - design is no longer solely about the manufacture of the product itself. Instead, the creation of atmosphere is brought to the forefront of design work, so much so that the product becomes one of the design elements. The focus on the design of atmosphere allows us to better reflect on the interaction betw…Read more
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    In past decades, the subject atmosphere and mood has gone beyond the physio-meteorological and psychological scopes and become a new direction of aesthetics which concerns two sides of the same phenomenon. As the primary sensuous reality constructed by both the perceiving subject and the perceived object, atmosphere and mood are neither a purely subjective state nor an objective thing. Atmosphere is essentially a quasi-object pervaded by a specific affective quality and a ubiquitous phenomenon f…Read more
  • Corporeality in an ecologically oriented aesthetics of nature
    In Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature Time Responsibility, Routledge. pp. 175-190. 2022.
    The ecologically oriented aesthetics of nature envisaged in my article makes use of an understanding of aesthetics as a general theory of sensual perception as it was first expounded in the 18th century by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. It is not concerned primarily with the question of the beauty of nature and its experience by man, but rather and foremost with the “corporal and sensual experience of a person who is situated, lives, works and moves in a particular bit of nature” (Böhme 1989). W…Read more
  • On the Term “Body” in the Eco-Aesthetics -- From the Perspective of the New Phenomenology
    In Naturalizing Aesthetics, Wydawnictwo Libron. pp. 39-48. 2015.
    In the current eco-aesthetic debates, the reflection on the aesthetic human-nature relationship from the body’s dimension has become an important topic. Like most research in this field, an exploration of body’s functions and features in the eco-aesthetic context will be also the central interest of this article. To broaden the perspective of this subject, the viewpoint of the new phenomenology whose innovation mainly lies in paying attention to the pre-theoretical body phenomena and thus redisc…Read more
  • An Atmospheric Approach to Urban Aesthetics
    MÓDULO ARQUITECTURA CUC 21 161-180. 2018.
    Usually, our aesthetic experience in urban environment is oriented towards the picturesque tradition which focuses on the visual image of an aesthetic object as well as its form-related qualities. In this respect, the elements of the urban environment are visually selected, highlighted and combined. A unified urban space is thus split apart. However, what aesthetically appeals to us in a city should not be solely related to its pictorial image, due to the fact that our relationship with environm…Read more
  • In the intercultural communication, an issue facing aestheticians is: can the word beauty appropriately express the central aesthetic phenomenon of each culture? If not, how can the approach of aesthetics, which was originally introduced as a branch of European philosophy, be transformed in accordance with respective traditions? Based on these considerations, my article will deal with how the concept atmosphere, which has been newly developed in the context of aesthetics as a general theory of p…Read more
  • Grundlinie einer altchinesischen Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung
    Polylog. Zeitschrift Für Interkulturelles Philosophieren 46 37-52. 2021.
    As a newly developed field, the history of Chinese-language historiography of philosophy takes a higher priority in the studies of the history of Chinese philosophy since the 20th century. The relevant works before the 20th century, which were mainly written in ancient Chinese, are highly marginalized. The historiography of philosophy in a global perspective acknowledges the importance of different articulations and frameworks of what is called philosophy and history of philosophy, thus providin…Read more
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    Kreativität und Mimesis. Das Bildschaffen in interkultureller Perspektive
    Image. Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft 36 102-111. 2022.
    As two concepts that are both distinct and intertwined, creativity and mimesis have their own history of development. In the visual arts, both refer primarily to the principles, methods, and procedures of image production. The production of images is neither entirely arbitrary nor entirely plannable, but has its own logic, which lies between work and reality, the inner world and the outer world as well as tradition and innovation. The relevant discourses are influenced by the respective cultural…Read more
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    Das Bild als Phänomen: Eine vergleichende Studie zur europäischen und chinesischen Malerei
    In Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 305-327. 2019.
    This article discusses the traditional approaches to creating images in China and Europe, which basically relate to two different understandings of truth and perception. On the basis of the concept mimesis, classical European paintings concentrate on a rigorous correspondence to the visually perceived reality. In contrast, literary paintings – one of the representational forms of traditional Chinese painting – take a different approach. In order to avoid a radical differentiation between image a…Read more
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    Gespräch mit Wolfgang Welsch
    Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2015 (1-2): 327-334. 2015.
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    In past decades, the subject of atmosphere has gone beyond the physio-meteorological scope and become a new concept of aesthetics. As the primary sensuous reality constructed by both the perceiving subject and the perceived object, atmosphere is neither a purely subjective state nor an objective thing, but essentially is a quasi-object pervaded by a specific emotional quality and a ubiquitous phenomenon forming the foundation of our life experience. In this respect, a decisive factor is not what…Read more
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    As a contemporary form of aesthetics of nature, Eco-aesthetics is dedicated to an aesthetic revision of the split between humans and nature in the process of modernization. Starting from the criticism that the current eco-aesthetic research is usually limited to a taste evaluation of natural beauty and that many studies pay little attention to practically reconstructing a new harmony between humans and nature under contemporary conditions, the article focuses on the following issue: a) To what e…Read more