What Is Beauty? a Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic Experience /
What Is Beauty? a Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic Experience /
edited by Martino Rossi Monti and Davor Pe�cnjak
- 1 online resource (x, 246 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- Index of Names
Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour? What does literature have to do with beauty? What are the limitations of neuroscientific approaches to beauty? Are the experience of beauty and the production of 'art' confined to anatomically modern humans? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans at all? These are just some of the questions discussed in this volume. It gathers together authors from different areas of research, including philosophy, history of philosophy, history of ideas, cognitive biology, neuroscie.
152756200X 9781527562004
Aesthetics.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Biology, life sciences.
Anthropology.
Aesthetics.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BH39 / .W43 2020
111/.85
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- Index of Names
Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour? What does literature have to do with beauty? What are the limitations of neuroscientific approaches to beauty? Are the experience of beauty and the production of 'art' confined to anatomically modern humans? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans at all? These are just some of the questions discussed in this volume. It gathers together authors from different areas of research, including philosophy, history of philosophy, history of ideas, cognitive biology, neuroscie.
152756200X 9781527562004
Aesthetics.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Biology, life sciences.
Anthropology.
Aesthetics.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BH39 / .W43 2020
111/.85