Vol. 20 No. 2 (2025): Aesthetics and Therapeia: On the Therapeutic Value of Representation

Published: 2026-08-01

Full Issue

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Articles

• Foreword

  Filippo Fimiani, Daniele Guastini

  7-10

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• What did the representation heal? On the therapeutic value of ancient catharsis

  Daniele Guastini

  11-29

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• The Healing Word Between Mimesis and Catharsis: The Real and “Its” Representation

  Francesco Valagussa, Diego Centonze

  31-44

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• The Mirror and the Statue: Renaissance Physiognomics and Therapy

  Cecilia Muratori

  45-62

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• Transcendental illusion and mental illness in Kant: critical philosophy as therapy

  Serena Feloj

  63-73

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• The "moral" force of "poetic" works. Aesthetics and therapeia in Leopardi

  Antonio Valentini

  75-93

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• The Reverse of Thanatos and the Art of Repetition

  Marina Montanelli

  95-108

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• Stiegler's Caring Between Technics, Aesthetics and Politics

  Paolo Vignola

  109-125

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• The End of the World and the Drama of Presence: the Aesthetic Redemption of Crisis in Ernesto De Martino

  Andrea D’Ammando

  127-140

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• Walter Benjamin and the Homeopathic Paradigm

  Francesco Emilio Restuccia

  141-163

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• Imperfect Everydays Beauty: Comfort Movies and the Healing of the Ordinary

  Filippo Fimiani, Anna Chiara Sabatino

  165-183

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• Aesthetics Meets Oncology: A Participatory Design Project to Speed Up Time Passage in Chemotherapy Through Virtual Reality

  Federica Cavaletti, Ilaria Terrenghi

  185-206

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• Interactive Hallucinations. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and AVATAR Therapy for Disordered Imagination in Schizophrenia

  Sofia Pirandello

  207-221

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Varia

• The Phenomenological Experience of Contemporary Painting in the Triangle of Artist, Artwork, and Viewer

  Yusuf Emre Işık, Mustafa Işık

  225-238

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• Threshold-Based Argument for Six Discrete Human Senses

  La Shun L. Carroll

  239-256

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• Padmasana and the Aesthetic of the Sacred: Symbol and Spiritual Experience at Pura Jagatnatha Yogyakarta

  Made Aditya Abhi Ganika, I Wayan Suardana

  257-274

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• Unmasking the Symbolic Meaning of Mask in the Newari Festivals

  Bishnu Prasad Dahal

  275-304

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• Nostalgia Made Material: The Social Life of Retro Crafts in Postcolonial Java

  Guntur Guntur, Wahyu Novianto, Taufik Murtono, Bianca Mayasari Figl

  305-319

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Note e recensioni

• Note e recensioni

  Davide Mogetta, Pietro Bertino, Carolina Sprovieri

  323-333

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