| Beauty: The Value of Values Contributor(s): Turner, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813930693 ISBN-13: 9780813930695 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $29.21 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.52 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |