Husserl on Depiction

The publication of Husserliana XXIII "Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung" in 1980 and John B. Brough's translation of it in 2005 increased interest in Edmund Husserl's philosophy of depiction. This is the first comprehensive collection in English that provides a systematic reading of Husserl's theory of depictive image consciousness.

Regina-Nino Mion is a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She defended her doctoral dissertation "Edmund Husserl's Theory of Image Consciousness, Aesthetic Consciousness, and Art" at the University of Fribourg in 2014. Her main research interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of art and aesthetics, and pictorial representation. She is the editor of the special issue "Depiction: Contemporary Studies on Pictorial Representation" published in the journal Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi/Studies on Art and Architecture, Vol 29, 3-4, 2020. Her articles are published in journals such as the New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Studia Phaenomenologica and Anuario Filosófico. Claudio Rozzoni obtained his PhD in aesthetics and theory of art from the University of Palermo with a dissertation on Marcel Proust and philosophy. He was a visiting scholar at the Husserl Archive at the University of Cologne (2013) and at UCLA, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media (2015) and a visiting professor (Aesthetics) at the Sorbonne University. Between 2013 and 2021, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the New University of Lisbon (IFILNOVA). He is currently Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Milan. His publications include The Phenomenological Image: A Husserlian Inquiry into Reality, Phantasy, and Aesthetic Experience (2023), which was granted the Italian Society of Aesthetics (SIE) Award for Original International Work in 2024. John B. Brough is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He has written essays on the consciousness of time, memory, aesthetics, depiction, phenomenology and photography, phenomenology of film, and the relationship of art and the artworld. He has translated Husserliana Volume X, On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time, which includes Husserl's early texts on time consciousness; and Volume XXIII, Phantasy, Image Consciousness and Memory which collects Husserl's texts on memory, phantasy and image-consciousness. He is the co-editor of The Many Faces of Time.

Introduction Regina-Nino Mion, Claudio Rozzoni, and John B. Brough Part 1: Depictive Image Consciousness 1. Husserl's Phenomenology of Image-Consciousness in the Age of the Iconic and Digital Turns Nicolas de Warren 2. The Structure of Seeing Pictures Carmelo Calì 3. A Genetic Phenomenological Theory of Image-Consciousness: Following Husserl's Direction More than Husserl Reiko Ijuin Part 2: Phantasy and Depiction 4. Imagination and Phantasí- Alexander Schnell 5. The Conflict Phenomenon: Perception, Imagination, and Ficta Paolo Spinicci 6. On Higher-Order Depictive Image Consciousness Eduard Marbach Part 3: Art, Aesthetics and Depiction 7. The Image and the World John B. Brough 8. Husserl and the Phenomenological Subject of Depiction Paul Crowther 9. Loin Cloths and Fig Leaves: What Phenomenology can tell us about the Place of the Nude in Sacred Art Javier E. Carreño Cobos 10. The Aesthetic Attitude and Still Life Paintings Regina-Nino Mion Part 4: Media and Depiction 11. Image Consciousness in the Age of Street Advertising: Contemporary Challenges to Husserl's Reading of the Image and its Frame Christian Ferencz-Flatz 12. The Eye and the Lens: Notes on the Intersubjective Constitution of Photography Patrick Gerard Eldridge 13. Seeing Beyond the Image: Husserlian Reflections on the Empathetic Experience of Photographs Marco Cavallaro 14. Beyond Depiction? Prolegomena to a Phenomenology of Virtual Consciousness Claudio Rozzoni Part 5: Husserl and Other Philosophers on Depiction 15. Phenomenology or Descriptive Psychology of Imagination? A Reexamination of Brentano and Husserl on Phantasy Presentations Robin D. Rollinger 16. Ingarden's Missed Encounter with Husserl: Image Consciousness, Theory of the Picture, and Aesthetic Experience Peer F. Bundgaard 17. Blaustein's Aesthetics and the Question of Intentionality: On an Early Reading of Husserl's Theory of Image Consciousness Witold P-otka 18. Beyond the Mental Imagery Model: Phenomenology and Ontology of Imagination from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty Annabelle Dufourcq 19. Representative Matters: A Critique of Sartre's Phenomenology of Physical Images Federico Fantelli 20. "The Divine Irreference of Images": From Husserl's Image Object to Baudrillard's Simulacrum Natalie Pfaff