Tonino Griffero is Full Professor of Aesthetics at University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Italy.

Marco Tedeschini is post-doc at the Italian Institute for German Studies, Rome, Italy.

Provides a complete presentation of the concept of "atmosphere"

Discusses various applications of atmopshere in the humanities and social sciences

Brings together studies and ruminations on the role and concept of "atmosphere" in a variety of contexts and fields of research

1. Is There Such a Thing as an "Atmospheric Turn"? Instead of an Introduction.- 2. Atmospheric Spaces.- 3. Atmospheres and Moods: Two Modes of Being-with.- 4. Japanese Atmospheres: Of Sky, Wind, Breathing.- 5. The Atmospheric Sense: Peripheral Perception and the Experience of Space.- 6. Atmosphere, Place, and Phenomenology: Depictions of London Place Settings in the Three Writings by British-African Novelist Doris Lessing.- 7. A Jungly Feeling: the Atmospheric Design of Zoos.- 8. Atmospheric Aeshteses: Law as Affect.- 9. The Lesser Existence of the Ambiance.- 10.Atmosphere and Memory: A Phenomenological Approach.- 11. Atmospheres of Learning, Atmospheric Competence.- 12. Psychopathology, Atmospheres, and Clinical Transformations: Toward a Field-Based Clinical Practice.- 13. The Lightness of Atmospheric Communities.- 14. Smell and Atmosphere.- 15. Atmosphere and Taste, Individual and Environment.- 16. Renga and Atmosphere.- 17. The Atmosphere of Tones: Notions of Atmosphere in Music Scholarship, 1840-1930.- 18. Architecture as Musical Atmosphere.