Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood

This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Signifying both ''mood'' and ''attunement'', Stimmung speaks to the categories of affective experience and aesthetic design alike. The study locates itself in the nexus between discourses on modernity, existentialism and aesthetics and uncovers the pivotal role of Stimmung in 19th- and 20th-century E...