Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA), Frankfurt am Main

"In a joint effort of researchers from the humanities and the sciences, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics explores who aesthetically appreciates what, for which reasons and under which situational and historical circumstances, and analyzes the functions of aesthetic preferences and practices for individuals and societies." The FID AVL's main cooperation partner within the MPIEA is the Department of Language and Literature (director: Prof. Dr. Winfried Menninghaus), that investigates the aesthetic perception and evaluation of linguistic utterances.

 

One of the aims of the cooperation is to make the work of the MPIEA, which often finds reception primarily in the sciences, visible in a literary studies context. To this end, the MPIEA has been given editorial access to the Networking module in order to make its activities known to scholars in the humanities. Open Access publications of the Language and Literature Department that have appeared in the Max Planck Society's repository are mirrored on CompaRe in cooperation with the MPIEA library. In the future, references to all publications of the department will be included in the search index of the Finding literature module.

The MPIEA on the Networking module.

All MPIEA publications currently available on CompaRe.