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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-13 | 9780813913575 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0813913578 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.25 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $49.50 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 156 pages |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
| Published On | 1992-02-20 |
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