Entre a percepção e a imaginação: as vivências estéticas no mundo da vida

Tiago Negrão Andrade; Ariane Andréia Teixeira Toubia; Maria Cristina Gobbi

doi:10.33361/RPQ.2026.v.14.n.39.1419

Authors

Tiago Negrão Andrade FAAC/UNESP https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5352-9798
Ariane Andréia Teixeira Toubia https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5601-2804
Maria Cristina Gobbi FAAC - UNESP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33361/RPQ.2026.v.14.n.39.1419

Keywords:

Phenomenology of aesthetics, Aesthetic experience, Perception and imagination, Givenness and saturation, Ontology of the sensible

Abstract

This article examines how aesthetic experience, within contemporary phenomenology, emerges as an event intertwining perception, imagination, embodiment, affect, and meaning, operating through the logics of givenness and saturation. Drawing on Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Marion, alongside contemporary scholars, the study argues that aesthetic experience exceeds representational paradigms by advancing an ontology of the sensible and an ethics of hospitality. It shows that the aesthetic phenomenon is not merely an object of contemplation but an event that summons the subject to exposure, openness, and transformation—where the visible intertwines with the invisible and the sensible becomes a space of symbolic and intersubjective cohabitation. Adopting a theoretical, phenomenological, and critical approach grounded in conceptual and hermeneutic analysis, the study explicitly delineates its theoretical scope and limitations—highlighting the absence of empirical fieldwork and the conceptual emphasis of the analysis—while underscoring the relevance of the discussion to contemporary debates on aesthetics and sensible experience.

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Author Biographies

Tiago Negrão Andrade, FAAC/UNESP

PhD in Media and Technology from FAAC - Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communication - Bauru Campus, São Paulo State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho". Graduated in Social Communication - Specialization in Public Relations from the University of Sorocaba (UNISO).
Maria Cristina Gobbi, FAAC - UNESP

CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship. Associate Professor in History of Communication and Media Culture in Latin America (2014). He completed his Post-doctorate (2008) in the Graduate Program in Integration of Latin America at the University of São Paulo – (PROLAM / USP), a PhD in Social Communication from the Methodist University of São Paulo (2002). Head of the Social Communication Department of FAAC-Unesp (2017-2019). He was a Fellow of the Institute of Applied Research (IPEA) - year 2010-2013. Professor of the Graduate Program in Communication, professor and was vice-coordinator (2009-2017) of the Postgraduate Program in Media and Technology, both of the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Administrative Director (2013-2016 management) of SOCICOM (Brazilian Federation of Scientific and Academic Communication Associations). She was Director-secretary of the Folkcom Network. In the 2008-2011 period she was Director of Documentation for INTERCOM (Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Communication Studies) and is currently part of the management (2017-2019) in the Fiscal Council. Ad-hoc Consultant (Institutional and Communication Courses) of the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research of the Ministry of Education (INEP / MEC). Coordinator of the Research Group on Latin American Communications Thinking (PCLA) of CNPq. She was Alternate Director of the UNESCO Chair of Communication (1998-2010). Assistant Editor - Latin American Association of Communication Researchers - ALAIC. Winner of the Luiz Beltrão Award - Category: Academic Maturity of the Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Communication Studies (2014). He works in the area of Communication, with an emphasis on History of Communication and Media Culture, History and Memory (Communication), Latin American Communication, Youth Cultures, Popular Culture, Cultural Diversity, Media-cultural Profiles (Institutions and Personalities), Theories of Communication and Culture in Latin America, Journalism and its social and technological nuances and Digital Technologies in Latin America, Gender and Human and Social Development

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