Beauty: The Value of Values (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813930695)

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.

Author: Frederick Turner
ISBN-10: 0813930693
ISBN-13: 9780813930695
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2015
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36d