This book offers a diverse understanding and practical approach towards the growing area of atmosphere research, in the context of Philosophy, Geography and Architecture.

Preface; Author's Note; Part One Pathic Aesthetics and New Phenomenology; Chapter 1 Art and Atmospheres: The Approach of A Pathic Aesthetics; Chapter 2: The Psychologistic-Introjectivistic-Reductionist Paradigm: The Source of All Errors; Chapter 3 A History of Repressions; Chapter 4: Neo-phenomenological "Therapies"; Part Two Atmospheres, Presences, Expressive Qualities; Chapter 5 Are There Inauthentic Atmospheric Feelings? The Overestimation of Intentionality; Chapter 6 Good Regressions: Mineness and Absolute Subjectivity; Chapter 7 Condemned to Sense (and Expression): Eight Theses on Atmospheres as Expressive Wholes; Chapter 8 Come Rain or Come Shine ...: The (Neo)Phenomenological Will-To-Presentness; Part Three Atmospherological Exercises; Chapter 9 Architectural Affordances: The Atmospheric Authority of Spaces; Chapter 10 A House is Not a Home: Dwelling Means Cultivating Atmospheres; Chapter 11 Inclusiveness and Immersion; Chapter 12 Found or Created? The Genius Loci as an (Atmospheric) Experience; Chapter 13: Stone, Soil and Sand: Earthy Atmospheres; Chapter 14 Like Leaves in the Wind: Does Democracy Have Its Own Atmosphere?; Chapter 15 Intentionality and Unintentionality in the Pedagogical Atmosphere; Chapter 16 Theatrical Atmospheres: Much Ado About Nothing?; Bibliography; Index