Il sensibile rimosso. Itinerari di estetica sulla scena americana

Passing through single authors and specific problems, the book explores a territory that remains outside or on the edge of the light cone of the more considered American aesthetic reflection, namely the analytical philosophy of art. It then looks at capital moments that either are at the origin of American aesthetics of the twentieth century, or cross over the same analytical approach. To unite these "removed" elements is the attention to the rich phenomenology of the sensible and a sort of anthropological bending, both aspects to which, however, seem attracted to the same recent developments of analytical philosophy. Intent of the book is therefore to explore the act of removal accomplished in analytical philosophy of art and some form of return of such removed. At the center of the first part of the book are authors as Dewey, Langer and Wollheim. The second part of the book deals with problems related to the themes of creativity, appearance and aesthetic properties, trying to outline the structures of the "aesthetic field"