Blick, rörelse, röst: Festskrift till Cecilia Sjöholm

A festschrift: The collection of essays, art and literature in Swedish, French or English. From the editors: This festschrift was produced during the pandemic time of 2020 in order to celebrate our esteemed colleague Professor of Aesthetics, Cecilia Sjöholm, on her 60th birthday on March 8th 2021. Compiling a Festschrift is like following a movement, a movement across time, places and contexts. In the contributions we have received for this Festschrift dedicated to Cecilia Sjöholm we sometimes encounter a familiar Cecilia and sometimes a Cecilia that has been unknown to us until now. A Cecilia in motion, intellectually and physically – a dancing Cecilia is a recurring image. Cecilia is at the centre of Aesthetics’ dancefloor, she is the figure around whom the circle forms while she is breaking out her moves – not primarily the one everyone is looking at but definitely the one keeping the dancefloor alive. This Festschrift is a tribute to the sixty years of Cecilia’s life, as well as her work towards the formation and continuity of the field of Aesthetics. About Cecilia Sjöholm: Cecilia Sjöholm is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stockholm University and a PhD in Philosophy from Radboud University, Holland. She has published extensively on the history of aesthetics. Her books deal with art and Greek tragedy, aesthetics and phenomenology. Her books include Doing Aesthetics with Arendt; How to see Things is published with Columbia University Press (2015), Kristeva and the Political, London: Routledge. (2005) The Antigone Complex; Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire, Calif: Stanford University Press (2004). Sjöholm has initiated and directed several research projects, for instance on the history of aetshetics as a history of reflection on the senses, resulting in an anthology with commented classical texts on aesthetics (with Danius and Wallenstein). Her latest project, Descartes at the Crossroads. Cartesian Perspectives on Aesthetics is funded by the Swedish research Council 2016-2019. The project has resulted in one article so far, “Descartes, emotions and the inner life of the subject”, Palgrave Reader on Affects and Textuality.