Erika FISCHER-LICHTE is professor of Theatre Studies at Free University Berlin. She is past president of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and holds the chair of the Institute for Advanced Studies on "Interweaving Cultures in Performance". Benjamin WIHSTUTZ is assistant professor of Theatre Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and a research fellow for eight years at the Interdisciplinary Research Center "Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits".

• Introduction: Transformative Aesthetics—Reflections on the Metamorphic Power of ArtErika Fischer-Lichte1 Aristotle’s theory of Katharsis in its Historical and Social ContextsEdith Hall2 The Taste of Art and Transcendence: Transformation(s) in Rasa and Bhakti Aesthetics Guillermo Rodriguez3 Metamorphosis in the PictureBernhard Waldenfels4 Somaesthetics and Self-Cultivation in Chinese ArtRichard Shusterman5 Schiller’s Transformative AestheticsBenjamin Wihstutz6 Clairvoyance and Transformation: Wagner’s NeuroaestheticsMatthew Wilson Smith7 The Invisible Vanguard: Reflections on Political Movements and Contemporary AvantGarde FormationsJames Harding8 Applied Theatre: Theatre for ChangeMatthias Warstat9 Transformative Resistance and AestheticsBill Ashcroft10 The Art of not Relating with one Another—Notes on Some Issues and Potentials of Relational ArtSandra Umathum

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Erika FISCHER-LICHTE is professor of Theatre Studies at Free University Berlin. She is past president of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and holds the chair of the Institute for Advanced Studies on "Interweaving Cultures in Performance". Benjamin WIHSTUTZ is assistant professor of Theatre Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and a research fellow for eight years at the Interdisciplinary Research Center "Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits".

• Introduction: Transformative Aesthetics—Reflections on the Metamorphic Power of ArtErika Fischer-Lichte1 Aristotle’s theory of Katharsis in its Historical and Social ContextsEdith Hall2 The Taste of Art and Transcendence: Transformation(s) in Rasa and Bhakti Aesthetics Guillermo Rodriguez3 Metamorphosis in the PictureBernhard Waldenfels4 Somaesthetics and Self-Cultivation in Chinese ArtRichard Shusterman5 Schiller’s Transformative AestheticsBenjamin Wihstutz6 Clairvoyance and Transformation: Wagner’s NeuroaestheticsMatthew Wilson Smith7 The Invisible Vanguard: Reflections on Political Movements and Contemporary AvantGarde FormationsJames Harding8 Applied Theatre: Theatre for ChangeMatthias Warstat9 Transformative Resistance and AestheticsBill Ashcroft10 The Art of not Relating with one Another—Notes on Some Issues and Potentials of Relational ArtSandra Umathum

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Erika FISCHER-LICHTE is professor of Theatre Studies at Free University Berlin. She is past president of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and holds the chair of the Institute for Advanced Studies on "Interweaving Cultures in Performance". Benjamin WIHSTUTZ is assistant professor of Theatre Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and a research fellow for eight years at the Interdisciplinary Research Center "Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits".

• Introduction: Transformative Aesthetics—Reflections on the Metamorphic Power of ArtErika Fischer-Lichte1 Aristotle’s theory of Katharsis in its Historical and Social ContextsEdith Hall2 The Taste of Art and Transcendence: Transformation(s) in Rasa and Bhakti Aesthetics Guillermo Rodriguez3 Metamorphosis in the PictureBernhard Waldenfels4 Somaesthetics and Self-Cultivation in Chinese ArtRichard Shusterman5 Schiller’s Transformative AestheticsBenjamin Wihstutz6 Clairvoyance and Transformation: Wagner’s NeuroaestheticsMatthew Wilson Smith7 The Invisible Vanguard: Reflections on Political Movements and Contemporary AvantGarde FormationsJames Harding8 Applied Theatre: Theatre for ChangeMatthias Warstat9 Transformative Resistance and AestheticsBill Ashcroft10 The Art of not Relating with one Another—Notes on Some Issues and Potentials of Relational ArtSandra Umathum

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