Beauty - The Value of Values (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Virginia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2015
Authors:	Frederick Turner
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	156
ISBN-13:	978-0-8139-3069-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	0-8139-3069-3
Barcode:	9780813930695

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