Overview
- The first scholarly volume in the field of aesthetics to present an embodied approach to human experience
- Presents a wide range sub-disciplines within aesthetics
- Highlights new research questions within the field of aesthetics, and they grapple with the embodied mind thesis
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 73)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Introduction to a Non-classical View of Meaning-Making and Human Cognition
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Embodied Aesthetics: The Anti-Cartesian View and Aesthetics of Life
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Neuroscience, Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind
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Art Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy
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Radicalizing the Anti-Cartesian View: Enactivism in Aesthetics
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy
Editors: Alfonsina Scarinzi
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9379-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9378-0Published: 04 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0650-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9379-7Published: 24 November 2014
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 330
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Cognitive Psychology