DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Beauty

The Value of Values

Frederick Turner author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Published:29th Feb '92

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Beauty cover

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.

ISBN: 9780813913575

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

156 pages