Anjan Chatterjee: Aesthetic Brain

Cover: 9780190262013 | Aesthetic Brain | How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art | Buch

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Beschreibung

The Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Anjan Chatterjee investigates how an aesthetic sense is etched into our minds, and explains why artistic concerns feature centrally in our lives. Along the way, Chatterjee addresses such fundamental questions as: What is beauty? Is it universal? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should art be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for art?

Über den Autor

Anjan Chatterjee, M.D., is Professor of Neurology, and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the editorial boards of Empirical Studies of the Arts; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology; Behavioural Neurology; Neuropsychology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; European Neurology; The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society; American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience; Brain Science; and Policy Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology. In 2002, he was awarded the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology. He is President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics and President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

BEAUTY

1. What is this thing called beauty?

2. Captivating faces

3. The measure of facial beauty

4. The body beautiful

5. How the brain works

6. Brains behind beauty

7. Evolving beauty

8. Landscapes

9. Numbering beauty

10. The illogic of beauty

PLEASURE

1. What is this thing called pleasure?

2. Food

3. Sex

4. Money

5. Liking, wanting, learning

6. The logic of pleasure

1. What is this thing called art?

2. Art: Biology and culture

3. Descriptive science of the arts

4. Experimental science of the arts

5. Conceptual art

6. The inception of art

7. Messy minds

8. Evolving art

9. Art: A tail or a song?

10. The serendipity of art

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190262013
ISBN-10:	019026201X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Chatterjee, Anjan
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Anjan Chatterjee
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.09.2015
Gewicht:	0,355 kg