Associations / Assoziationen
The Experience of Individuality
On the associative generation of individual experience
You see a blue bicycle and immediately think back to your last summer holiday: associative experiences like this are an extremely common phenomenon. But what are their fundamental characteristics? Situated squarely in the tradition of phenomenology, Lambert Wiesing identifies the experience of one’s own individuality as one of the central components of every association. It is only through unquestioned associations that we are able to experience ourselves as specific, unique individuals in the...
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You see a blue bicycle and immediately think back to your last summer holiday: associative experiences like this are an extremely common phenomenon. But what are their fundamental characteristics? Situated squarely in the tradition of phenomenology, Lambert Wiesing identifies the experience of one’s own individuality as one of the central components of every association. It is only through unquestioned associations that we are able to experience ourselves as specific, unique individuals in the world.
It is not individuals who make associations, rather associations make us into individuals.
It is not individuals who make associations, rather associations make us into individuals.
»In his writings, Wiesing works with a great systematic rigour and interdisciplinary sensibility on the question – so fundamental not just for art history but also for the philosophy of aesthetics and cognitive theory – that can be summed up as the ontological problem of the image.« Judges’ remarks for the Wissenschaftspreis of the Aby Warburg Foundation
»In his writings, Wiesing works with a great systematic rigour and interdisciplinary sensibility on the question – so fundamental not just for art history but also for the philosophy of aesthetics and cognitive theory – that can be summed up as the ontological problem of the image.« Judges’ remarks for the Wissenschaftspreis of the Aby Warburg Foundation
2025, 190 pages
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Lambert Wiesing
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Lambert Wiesing, born in 1963, is professor of Philosophy, Image Theory and Phenomenology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His areas of specialisation are phenomenology, cognitive and image theory and aesthetics. From 2005 to 2008 Wiesing was president of the German Society for Aesthetics. In 2015, he was awarded the Aby Warburg Foundation Prize, in 2018 the Research Prize of the State of Thuringia.
Lambert Wiesing
Author
Lambert Wiesing, born in 1963, is professor of Philosophy, Image Theory and Phenomenology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His areas...
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