Aesthetics after Darwin - Menninghaus, Winfried
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Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of ""art"" production not only in animals, but also in humans. This book argues that Darwin's hypothesis is strongly informed both by classical rhetoric and by English and German philosophical aesthetics.

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Produktbeschreibung
Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of ""art"" production not only in animals, but also in humans. This book argues that Darwin's hypothesis is strongly informed both by classical rhetoric and by English and German philosophical aesthetics.
Autorenporträt
Winfried Menninghaus is Director of the Department of Language and Literature at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt) and Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. His empirical, evolutionary, and philosophical work on aesthetics has a special focus on the nature and the emotional effects of poetic language.