Gernot Böhmes atmosfæreæstetik og vejrfænomenologi

Abstract

The paper explores Gernot Bohme’s interpretation of the concept of atmosphere as an aesthetical concept of the natural environment, especially of the weather. Bohme takes over the concept of atmosphere from Hermann Schmitz’ body phenomenology in which human feelings are considered to be spatial atmospheres. Bohme integrates atmospheres into his phenomenology of nature by showing that they are bodily sensations of human’s mode of being in their environment. Based on this framework he sketches out a phenomenology of the weather, i.e. a theory of the connection of climate and our mode of being. The perspective of the paper is to employ Bohme’s work with atmospheres in environmental education in general, and, specifi cally, in education concerning climate change.