SENSUS COMMUNIS is a multidisciplinary research group with members from diverse research environments (primarily philosophy, literary studies, and fine arts) working on aesthetics, art, and nature. With its emphasis on the role of the senses and imagination in human experience, aesthetics offers new perspectives and alternative ways of relating to nature, something that has become urgent in a time characterized by global warming and accelerating species extinction.
Members of the research group focus on the connection between art and nature, theories on the relationship between humans and animals, and the beauty of nature, as well as the relationship between literature and philosophy. The group scrutinizes the historical development of aesthetic thought and technology’s role as an impetus for new forms of artistic expression. In addition, points of intersection between different art forms and forms of artistic expression are also an important focus.
PhD programme in Humanities and Education
Publications
Armstrong, Charles I., Paterson, Adrian, and Walker, Tom, (eds.) (2024). The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Armstrong, Charles I. (2024). The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi. In Charles I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson and Tom Walker (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 67-82.
Armstrong, Charles I. (2024). "Far Away, So Close!" Multidirectional Memory, Spatiality, and New Media. In Ingunn Røysland with Charles I. Armstrong, U2's Songs of Trauma and Hope: "Between the Midnight and the Dawning". Lanham: Lexington Books, 89-109.
Armstrong, Charles I. (2023). Romanticism and Aestheticism. In Lauren Arrington and Matthew Campbell (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of W: B. Yeats. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 399-413.
Flodin, Camilla (2025). Aesthetic Unity. Journal of Adorno Studies 1(1), 70–72.
Flodin, Camilla (2025). Adorno on Nature and Animals. In Henry Pickford and Martin Shuster (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Adorno. Oxford University Press.
Flodin, Camilla (2024). Beautiful Creatures: Schiller and Goethe on Animal Freedom. In Gerad Gentry, Mattias Pirholt, and Camilla Flodin (ed.), Art, Nature, and Self-formation in the Age of Goethe (p. 165–179). De Gruyter.
Flodin, Camilla (2022). In the Name of the Rhinoceros: Expression beyond Human Intention. In Antonia Hofstätter and Daniel Steuer (ed.), Adorno's Rhinoceros: Art, Nature, Critique. Bloomsbury Academic.