What is beauty? a multidisciplinary approach to aesthetic experience

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" con...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rossi Monti, Martino (HerausgeberIn), Pećnjak, Davor (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Zusammenfassung: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, neuroscience.
Beschreibung:ix, 246 Seiten
ISBN:9781527560130