This book begins with the distinction between the so-called 'lived body' or 'felt body' (Leib) and the 'physical body' (Körper), tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thought.
Tonino Griffero is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy. In the past decade, he has authored Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces (Routledge), Quasi-Things: The Paradigm of Atmospheres (Suny), Places, Affordances, Atmospheres: A Pathic Aesthetics (Routledge), and The Atmospheric 'We': Moods and Collective Feelings (Mimesis International).
