Staff and administration

IIAA’s office is located in Lahti, Finland as a part of Palmenia Centre for Continuing Education (University of Helsinki, Finland).

IIAA – International Institute of Applied Aesthetics

Palmenia Centre for Continuing Education
University of Helsinki
Kirkkokatu 16
FI-15140 LAHTI
FINLAND

iiaa-info(at)helsinki.fi

IIAA's activities are coordinated by

Postdoctoral Researcher
Kalle Puolakka
kalle.puolakka[at]helsinki.fi
+358-50-588 0730)

Doctoral Student (on maternity leave)
Sanna Lehtinen
sanna.t.lehtinen[at]helsinki.fi

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Researchers: Veera Launis (veera.launis(at)helsinki.fi) and

Petteri Enroth (petteri.enroth(at)helsinki.fi)

Petteri's research concerns the concept of aesthetic experience in Thodor W. Adorno's philosophy. Adorno's notion of the aesthetic is placed in a larger context of recent continental philosphy that likewise gives considerable cognitive, ethical and historico-political significance to the aesthetic sphere of human subjectivity. The role of the aesthetic in Adorno is comparatively analyzed in relation to, for example, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Lacan (and later "Lacanians") and Anglo-American radical democratic theory. By way of this theoretical analysis I aim at offering new, constructive perspectives on acute ethical and political challenges, such as the notions of cultural identity, multiculturalism, globalization and populism. I will also pay attention to Adorno's contributions to the theory of art and mass culture and show that several normative distinctions in his accounts are gained only by way of an inherent ambiguity in his central concepts such as mimesis and the linguistic nature of art.