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Gerald CIPRIANI

Ph.D. (aesthetics)

Philosophy, National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)
Editor in Chief, Culture and Dialogue(Brill)
Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology(Routledge)
General Editor, Figural – Aesthetic Aphorisms Today(Figural)
Instigator, We Speak Therefore We Think(Language and Philosophy for Children)
Chair, International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue (IRGCD)

Basic areas of research:
Cross-cultural philosophy East-West                
Ethical phenomenology of culture 
The Kyôto School 
Western aesthetics
Theory of art and design 

Basic publications:

  • 2019 – 《自然、文化与崇高:埃德蒙伯克环境美学思想时评》[Culture and the Sublime: On Edmund Burke’s Environmental Aesthetics], trans. Liu Sijie(刘思捷), in Environmental Aesthetics Frontiers Series《环境美学前沿》,ed. Wangheng Chen, Wuhan: Wuhan University Press(武汉大学出版社), China.ISBN: 978-7-307-20908-4  
  • 2018 – ‘Estética Personalista na Escola de Quioto: O Esvaziamento da Natureza Dia-Formativa da Arte’, [Personalist Aesthetics in the Kyoto School: The Emptying Dia-Formative Nature of Art], trans. André Bueno, in Diverso Orientes, Rio de Janeiro / União da Vitória: Edições Sobre Ontens, pp.39-48.
  • 2018 -《自然的存在是自我的空虚》[The Presence of Nature Is my Own Emptiness], in《美丽中国与环境美学》[Beautifying China and Environmental Aesthetics] (北京:中国建筑工业出版社) [Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press], trans. Liu Si-jie (刘思捷), pp. 65-71
  • 2018 – ‘The Phenomenon of Beauty’, English translation of Le phénomène de beautéby Jean-Luc Marion, in Special Issue on French Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, London: Routledge, Volume 5.2., 85-97.
  • 2017 – ‘Once more unto the breach: On Meaning and Structure’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Vol. 42, 35-45.
  • 2017 – ‘The Way of Aesthetic Phenomena: No Delphic World to Unfasten’, inProceedings of the 20thInternational Congress of Aesthetics, The Korean Society of Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Korea, 74-77.
  • 2016 – ‘The Touch of Meaning: Researching Art Between Text and Texture’, Janus Head – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Volume 15, Issue 2, 157-166.
  • 2016 – ‘The Visible that “Means” and the Boundless Universe: An Ethical Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience’’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Vol. 40, 1-10.
  • 2015 – ‘Wisdom in Interpretation or The Otherness of Subversion and Relativism’, in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Volume XXXVIII, Nos. 1-2, 77-84.
  • 2015 – Chinese Environmental Aesthetics (edited, Wangheng Chen, Feng Su), London: Routledge, 272 pp. 
  • 2014 – ‘Dialogue, Ethics, and the Aesthetic Worth of Life’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Vol. 39, 15-24.
  • 2014 – ‘Dwelling in the Light of the Thou, Or the Art of the Opening Space’, in International Journal of Cultural Research, No. 3 (16), St Petersburg, Russia, 74-78.
  • 2013 – Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening(edited, Wei Hsiu Tung), Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 207 pp. 

The Northern Caucasus Affiliation

On March 25, 2015, the Northern Caucasus affiliation of our Chair was inaugurated in the city of Derbent, basing upon the premises of the State University of Daghestan, and the Naryn-Kala historical, architectural and artistic museum.

Partners


UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)

  • College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center
  • Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA)
  • The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions (Jerusalem, Izrael)

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