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It is not the case that Atmosphere and ambiance have not received adequate attention in aesthetics discourse
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Gernot Böhme's 'Atmosphären' (1995) established atmosphere as a central aesthetic category, influencing continental aesthetics for decades.
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The phenomenological tradition from Heidegger's Stimmung to Hermann Schmitz's corporeal philosophy treated atmosphere as foundational, not marginal.
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Tonino Griffero's 'Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces' (2014) demonstrates sustained Anglo-continental scholarly engagement with atmospheric aesthetics.
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The claim mistakes Anglophone analytic aesthetics' relative neglect for a universal gap, ignoring a rich German and Italian philosophical literature on the topic.
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Aesthetic discourse requires a clearly defined and delineated object of experience
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Atmosphere and ambiance lack a clear 'frame' around the object of experience
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