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 behavior? 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" conf...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behavior? 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 and neuroscience. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781527560130 1527560139 |