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The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic - Evolution of Sensibility in Nature (Hardcover)
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The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic - Evolution of Sensibility in Nature (Hardcover)
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The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility
in Nature traces the evolution of sensibility from the most primal
indications detectable at the level of cellular receptors and plant
tendril sensitivity, animal creativity and play to cultural
ramifications. Taking on Darwin's insistence against Wallace that
animals do have a sense of beauty, and on recent evolutionary
observations, this book compellingly argues that sensibility is a
biological faculty that emerges together with life. It argues that
there is appreciation and discernment of quality, order, and
meaning by organisms in various species determined by their
morphological adaptations and environmental conditions. Drawing
upon Baumgarten's foundational definition of aesthetics as scientia
cognitionis sensitivae, this book proposes a non-anthropocentric
approach to aesthetics as well as the use of empirical evidence to
sustain its claims updating aesthetic understanding with
contemporary biosemiotic and evolutionary theory. The text leads us
along three distinct but entwined areas: from the world of matter
to that of living matter to the realm of cultivated living matter
for exploring how and why sensibility could have evolved. It points
out that aspects traditionally used to demarcate and characterize
human aesthetics-such as appreciation of symmetry, proportion and
color, as well as pleasure, valuation and empathy, sensory
seduction, creativity, and skills for representation, even
fiction-are present not only in humans but among a variety of plant
and animal species.
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