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Bioaesthetics - Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts (Hardcover)
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Bioaesthetics - Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts (Hardcover)
Series: Posthumanities
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In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in
evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of
looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen's remarkable
exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive
account of its ideas, as well as a timely critique of its
limitations. Strathausen familiarizes readers with the basics of
bioaesthetics, grounding them in its philosophical underpinnings
while articulating its key components. Importantly, he delves into
the longstanding problem of the "two cultures" that separate the
arts and the sciences. Seeking to make bioaesthetics a more robust
way of thinking, Strathausen then critiques it for failing to
account for science's historical and cultural assumptions. At its
worst, he says, biologism reduces artworks to mere automatons that
rubber-stamp pre-established scientific truths. Written with a
sensitive understanding of science's strengths, and willing to
refute its best arguments, Bioaesthetics helps readers separate the
sensible from the specious. At a time when humanities departments
are shrinking-and when STEM education is on the rise-Bioaesthetics
makes vital points about the limitations of science, while lodging
a robust defense of the importance of the humanities.
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