作者簡介
Gerald Cipriani is currently professor at Kyushu University, Japan. He studied Western aesthetics in Leeds (LMU) and East Asian philosophy in London (SOAS). He has taught both in Europe and East Asia and was a British Academy Fellow at Kyoto University. He has published in the fields of phenomenology, hermeneutics, ethics, education, art studies, philosophy of dialogue, French poststructuralism and the Kyoto School. His current writing focuses on dialogical aesthetics. He is also chair of the International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue, chief editor of the journals of humanities Culture and Dialogue and, with Arto Haapala, Aesthetic Pathways, and general editor of the publication series of aesthetic aphorisms Figural. He is also the editor of Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening (Wei Hsiu Tung, 2013) and Chinese Environmental Aesthetics (Wangheng Chen, 2014). Forthcoming monographs include The Available Self: Marcelian Reflections on Culture and Cultural Experience as Concrete Self-Awakening. Cosimo Zene is currently Reader and Head of Department in the Study of Religions Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published on ex-Untouchables (The Rishi of Bangladesh, 2002), on Gramsci (Rethinking Gramsci, ed. Marcus Green, 2011, LARES, 2013), a monograph on the work of the Danish anthropologist A. F. W. Bentzon in Sardinia (Dialoghi Nulesi, 2009), and various articles on gift-giving in Sardinia, part of a forthcoming monograph (Itineraries of the Gift).
