Winfried Menninghaus

Aesthetics after Darwin

The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

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Produktdetails

• Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts
• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781644696101
• ISBN-10: 164469610X
• Artikelnr.: 61260302

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Competitive Courtship and Aesthetic Judgment/Choice: Darwin¿s Model of
the Arts
2. The Arts as Promoters of Social Cooperation and Cohesion
3. Engagement in the Arts as Ontogenetic Self-(Trans-)Formation
4. A Cooptation Model of the Evolution of the Human Arts: The Special Role
of Play Behavior, Technology, and Symbolic Cognition
Bibliography
Index