Aesthetics is the centre’s most visible direction, built around the Ion Ianoși National Conference of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art — an annual series that has reached its seventh edition — and around the international journal of aesthetics and philosophy of culture.
The “Ion Ianoși” Conference
The series is dedicated to the figure of Professor Ion Ianoși (1928–2014) — professor of philosophy and aesthetics, essayist, monographer, translator, specialist in Russian philosophy and literature, honorary member of the Romanian Academy. In one of his formulations taken up by the centre, the sublime is “the most ethical of man’s aesthetic qualities” (Estetica, 1975).
Documented editions:
- Seventh edition — “(Re)forms of Modernity: Art and Society” (2019) — call for papers.
- Fifth edition — “The Sublime in Culture” (2017) — the conference proper; the call for papers — “The Sublime in Aesthetics”.
- Fourth edition — “The Category of the New. Its Impact on Art and Aesthetic Thought in the Twentieth Century” (2016) — documented in the national conferences archive; page of the second edition — “Art as Experience and Experience as Art”.
- “Play in Aesthetic Thought and Contemporary Art” (2015) — documented in the national conferences archive.
Related events: the National Conference “Philosophical Ideas in Modern and Contemporary European Art (1850–2000)” (2013).
The IJAPHC Journal
The International Journal of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture — the centre’s international academic journal, dedicated to aesthetics and the philosophy of culture (journal page and downloads).
Connections
- Philosophy of the Image — the related applied direction, dedicated to the theory of the image and visual art.
- Hermeneutics of Religious Symbols — aesthetics and the symbolics of the religious.
Members and Associated Faculty
Over the editions, the conference was coordinated by Prof. Mihaela Pop and by doctoral candidate (today assistant professor) Oana Șerban. See Members.
[TO BE COMPLETED: the full programmes of the editions and the resulting volumes; recent editions after 2019.]