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Husserl on Depiction (Routledge Research in Phenomenology)
Author(s): Regina-Nino Mion (Editor), Claudio Rozzoni (Editor), John B. Brough (Editor)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30 May 2025
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 386 pages
- ISBN-10: 1032461101
- ISBN-13: 9781032461106
Book Description
The publication of Husserliana XXIII “Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung” in 1980 and John B. Brough’s translation of it in 2005 increased interest in Edmund Husserl’s philosophy of depiction. This volume is the first comprehensive book collection in English that provides a systematic reading of Husserl’s theory of depictive image consciousness.
The book explains the meaning of various concepts in Husserl’s philosophy of depiction―such as Bildobjekt, Vergegenwärtigung, Perzeption ― and examines the range and limits of the application of Husserl’s depictive image consciousness to various art practices and media, and to other mental acts, e.g., phantasy, memory. The book discusses, among other topics, empathy, symbolic presentation and the aesthetic experience of depictions. Additionally, the book compares Husserl’s theory of depiction with that of other philosophers, notably Franz Brentano, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roman Ingarden, Leopold Blaustein and Jean Baudrillard.
Husserl on Depiction will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of perception, philosophy of art, aesthetics and pictorial representation.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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About the Author
Regina-Nino Mion is a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She defended her doctoral dissertation “Edmund Husserl’s Theory of Image Consciousness, Aesthetic Consciousness, and Art” at the University of Fribourg in 2014. Her main research interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of art and aesthetics, and pictorial representation. She is the editor of the special issue “Depiction: Contemporary Studies on Pictorial Representation” published in the journal Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi/Studies on Art and Architecture, Vol 29, 3–4, 2020. Her articles are published in journals such as the New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Studia Phaenomenologica and Anuario Filosófico.
Claudio Rozzoni obtained his PhD in aesthetics and theory of art from the University of Palermo with a dissertation on Marcel Proust and philosophy. He was a visiting scholar at the Husserl Archive at the University of Cologne (2013) and at UCLA, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media (2015) and a visiting professor (Aesthetics) at the Sorbonne University. Between 2013 and 2021, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the New University of Lisbon (IFILNOVA). He is currently Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Milan. His publications include The Phenomenological Image: A Husserlian Inquiry into Reality, Phantasy, and Aesthetic Experience (2023), which was granted the Italian Society of Aesthetics (SIE) Award for Original International Work in 2024.
John B. Brough is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He has written essays on the consciousness of time, memory, aesthetics, depiction, phenomenology and photography, phenomenology of film, and the relationship of art and the artworld. He has translated Husserliana Volume X, On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time, which includes Husserl’s early texts on time consciousness; and Volume XXIII, Phantasy, Image Consciousness and Memory which collects Husserl’s texts on memory, phantasy and image-consciousness. He is the co-editor of The Many Faces of Time.
