Susanne Langer’s Aesthetics of Consciousness
Journal of Consciousness Studies October 1, 2025 Robert Hopkins
To engage with something aesthetically you must be conscious of it. But can consciousness itself be an object of aesthetic appreciation? Is consciousness aesthetically interesting? If it is, there may be room for a theory of how this can be: of what is interesting about consciousness (or some particular form of it), from an aesthetic point of view, and what our relations to it must be for us to...