Beauty

The Value of Values

von Frederick Turner

154 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Frederick Turner presents a new theory of aesthetics based on the argument that beauty is an objective reality in the universe. He identifies the experience of beauty as a pancultural, neurobiological phenomenon. Drawing on a wide range of fields - ritual and dramatic performance, the oral tradition, paleoanthropology and human evolution, neurobiology, cosmology and theoretic physics, chaos theory and fractal mathematics - the book describes evolution as a self-organizing, emergent process that generates increasingly advanced forms of self-reflection, and proposes that the experience of beauty is the recognition of this evolutionary process and the reward for participating in it.

• Reihe: University of Virginia Press
• ISBN: 9780813913575
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2015
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Virginia