Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Scarinzi, Alfonsina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9402406506 ISBN-13: 9789402406504 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
Dewey: 111.85 |
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology |
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.07 lbs) 330 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic "Cartesian" paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a version of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but also from James and Peirce)--one primed from the start to see human beings not only as embodied, but as inseparable from the environment they interact with--and provides a forum for authors from diverse disciplines to address specific scientific and philosophical issues within the anti-dualistic framework considering aesthetic experience as a process of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from leading researchers including Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino. The volume covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive science, literary studies, psychology of aesthetics, art and design, sociology. |