Corinna Kühnapfel

Art and Embodied Aesthetic Emotions

May 30, 2026 Joerg Fingerhut, Corinna Kühnapfel preprint

In this chapter, we situate aesthetic emotions within the embodied-enactive framework of the mind. Building on central enactive accounts of art, Noë’s account of art as reorganizational practice and Gallagher’s account of the unaffordable in aesthetic experience, we examine the transformative potential of aesthetic engagement while highlighting a remaining challenge: these approaches leave...