Atmospheres: With an introduction by Tonino Griffero

Atmospheres reveal how collective feelings shape lived spaces, transforming perception and experience.

The contagious joy of a party, the solemn silence in a church, the gloomy atmosphere of rows and rows of identical houses in an ugly city. Through a criticism of the reification and psychologization that goes back to the very beginning of Western philosophy, Hermann Schmitz offers a fundamentally new theory of embodiment and feelings based on atmospheres, unstable but powerful phenomena tha...