Przestrzenność emocji a pojęcie obrazu. Przymiarki socjologiczne
Spatiality of Emotions and the Concept of Image. Attempts of Sociological Approach

Summary/Abstract: The cause to write an article was a question how to examine emotions which are ofspatial nature. While the colloquial language copes with “spatiality” of feelings – it knowsemotions and calls them (mood, atmosphere, climate, colour) – sociology has not developeda category enabling a systematic analysis of this phenomenon so far. In the theory of arts, thesituation is different. The leading subject of the text is reflection on possibility of combiningthe theory of art and sociology of emotions. The proposed link is to be the concept of imagetreated as “sensitizing concept” (Herbert Blumer). In the article, I refer to the concepts havingtheir roots in philosophy, social psychology and sociology of emotions which touch uponthe issue of spatiality of emotions and compare them to the concepts related to the theoryof image.

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