The Philosopher

Arto Haapala

The face

The background

Nationality:
Finnish
Schools:
Hermeneutics
Period:
20th-century, 21st-century

The synopsis

Arto Haapala (born 1959) is a Finnish philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies at Helsinki University, Finland. He received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 1985. He is also active in the Finnish Society for Aesthetics and the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland. In addition to aesthetics, Haapala also specialises in hermeneutics, especially the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heidegger.

The works