Vol. 49, No. 2, Summer 2026 [Regular Issue]
ARTICLES
- Per Bjørnar Grande – Was Girard a Romantic?
- Alivia Banerjee – After Truth: Arendt, Orwell, and the Aestheticization of Reality in the Age of Algorithmic Discourse
- Nancy Yadav – Body at the Threshold: Affective Intensities and Non-Representational Art in Deleuze
- Shreyosi Banerjee – The Violence of the Threshold: From Juridical Deferral to Somatic Sequestration in Kafka and Beckett
BOOK REVIEWS
- Alessio Porrino – The Critical Shusterman. By Richard Shusterman. NY: State University of New York Press, 2025. 428 pp.
- Afaf Abdullah Ahmed AlMalki – On Morrison. By Namwali Serpell. London: Penguin Random House, 2026. 384 pp.
- Sangeetha Puthiyedath – Imaginative Experience in the Arts: Promoting Liberal Education. By Charles Altieri. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 208 pp.
- Shreyosi Banerjee – Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver. By Peter E. Gordon. London: Yale University Press, 2026. 192 pp.
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SPECIAL ISSUE – The Sacred and Contemporary Artistic Languages: Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Guest Editor: Luca Siniscalco (University of Bergamo / JLU Gießen)
ARTICLES
- Luca Siniscalco – Introduction
- Sybille C. Fritsch-Oppermann – Art as a Hermeneutic Bridge between Religions in East and West
- Nicola Maria Camerlengo – Sacred Art and Its Evolution in Early Medieval Society: A Synthesis of Pagan and Christian Traditions – An Architectural, Theological, and Aesthetic Dialogue across Centuries
- Alessandro Rossi – Interpreting and Reinterpreting: Changes in the sense of sacred from Bosch to Xiaochun
- Massimo Introvigne – Concentric Circles: Swedenborgianism and the Visual Arts
- Gabriel Badea – Theater, Myth and Ritual: Eliade and Artaud
- Luca Siniscalco – From Abstraction to Sacred Figures: The Spiritual Path of Camilian Demetrescu
- Davide S. Amore – Aesthetic Mediation and the Question of Transcendence: Art and the Sacred in Contemporary Muslim Debate
- Meliha Teparić and Rosana Ratkovčić – Interreligious Dialogue and Transreligious Contemporary Art Practices
- Pintu Das – Digital Mindfulness: Reconfiguring the Sacred through Contemporary Buddhist Artistic Practices
- Veronika Szendro – Comparative Study of Buddhist Mandalas and Western Spiritual Art: Visual Features and Contemplative Patterns
- Eleonora D’Agostino – Dark Green Art: Socio-Political Aesthetics within Macabre and Distaste
- Roccolorenzo Scianguetta – Christian Metal as a Contemporary Language of the Sacred: Comparative Artistic Practices and Religious Meaning
- Jamie Stephenson – Cataphatic Sound, Apophatic Silence: Onkyô Music, Me/ontology and the Aesthetic Divine
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SPECIAL ISSUES
- Art, Imagination, and Affect
- A Festschrift for Peter Lamarque
- Aesthetics and Leisure: Historical, Intercultural, and Theoretical Perspectives
- (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
- Art and Emotion: Philosophical Engagements with Painting
- Understanding and Enjoyment in Aesthetic Experience
- Perspectives in Contemporary Critical Theory
- Reception of Sanskrit Studies in the 19th-century European Ideology
- Painting and Poetry: New Accents
The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics publishes special volumes on themes of current critical interest and contemporary relevance. Some of the special issues published in the past include “Deconstruction in Contemporary Criticism” (1985), “Representation in Contemporary Criticism” (1986), “Frankfurt School of Aesthetics” (1988), “Prague School of Structuralism” (1991), “Indian Aesthetics and Contemporary Theory” (1992), “Italian Aesthetics since Croce” (1993), “Aesthetics Today” (1994), “Environmental Aesthetics” (1995), etc. The Journal welcomes proposals for possible special issues at any time.