Bioaesthetics : Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts (Posthumanities)

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Bioaesthetics : Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts (Posthumanities)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781517900748
  • DDC分類 701.05

Full Description

In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausens remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a timely critique of its limitations. Strathausen familiarizes readers with the basics of bioaesthetics, grounding them in its philosophical underpinnings while articulating its key components. Importantly, he delves into the longstanding problem of the two culturesthat separate the arts and the sciences. Seeking to make bioaesthetics a more robust way of thinking, Strathausen then critiques it for failing to account for sciences historical and cultural assumptions. At its worst, he says, biologism reduces artworks to mere automatons that rubber-stamp pre-established scientific truths. Written with a sensitive understanding of sciences strengths, and willing to refute its best arguments, Bioaesthetics helps readers separate the sensible from the specious. At a time when humanities departments are shrinking-and when STEM education is on the rise-Bioaesthetics makes vital points about the limitations of science, while lodging a robust defense of the importance of the humanities.

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Biological Nature of What?

Against Consilience 

What Is Bioaesthetics?

Structure and Chapters

1. Human Nature after Kant

Kant and Biology

Preformation and Epigenesis before 1800

Emergent Life (Autopoiesis and Cognition)

Sensus Communis Aestheticus

2. Marxism and Biology

Marx and Darwin

Chance and Necessity, or, Kant Revisited

Science and Politics

A Biologistic Theory of History

On Norm-Circularity and Aleatory Materialism

3. Cultural Evolution

Sociobiology

Evolutionary Psychology (EP)

Social Learning and Sociogenesis

Of Memes and Culturgens 

Technogenesis

4. Evolutionary Aesthetics

Art and Nature

A Survey of the Field

Literary Darwinism Revisited

Cognitive Studies

5. Neuroaesthetics

How to "Read" a Brain Scan

The Cerebral Subject

Consciousness

Neuronal Aesthetics: The Historical View

Neuroaesthetics: The Scientific View

"The Pre-existing Idea within Us": Zeki's Platonism

Coda

Deleuze and Affect

A Posthuman Aesthetics?

Notes

Index