Arto Haapala

Arto Haapala (born 1959) is a Finnish philosopher, aesthetician and Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies at Helsinki University, Finland. Haapala received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 1985. He is also active in the work of the Finnish Society for Aesthetics and the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland.

In addition to aesthetics,[1] Haapala also specialises in hermeneutics, especially the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heidegger.

A selection of Haapala's writings in English

References

  1. Gracyk, Theodore (2007). Listening to Popular Music, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin. University of Michigan Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-472-06983-5. Retrieved 27 February 2011.


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