John Murungi, PhD, JD, is Professor of Philosophy at Towson University, USA. His research focuses on twentieth-century continental European philosophy, philosophy of law, and African and African American philosophy. He is the author of An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy, African Musical Aesthetics, African Philosophical Illuminations, and African Philosophical Currents. He has also co-edited and authored chapters in Sensorial Trajectories; Elemental Sensuous: Phenomenology and Aesthetics; Rendezvous with the Sensuous: Readings on Aesthetics; Symbolic Landscapes: Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes; and Lived Topographies and their Mediational Forces, among others. He is the co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, and the founder of the Geo-Aesthetics Conference Series.Linda Ardito, PhD, researches and writes extensivelyon the arts and humanities after a long and distinguished career in New York as Professor of Music. She has co-edited and authored chapters in Sensorial Trajectories; Elemental Sensuous: Phenomenology and Aesthetics; and Rendezvous with the Sensuous: Readings on Aesthetics. She has also authored chapters in Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts, and Symbolic Landscapes, as well as entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The Grove Dictionary of American Music; The Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development; and journal articles in Skepsis; International Journal of Musicology; and Perspectives of New Music, among others.
