Aesthetics after Darwin the multiple origins and functions of art
Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of “art” production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to reveal that Darwin’s hypothesis, rather than amounting to a full-blown antidote to the humanist traditio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
Academic Studies Press
2019, ©2019
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| Series: | Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Competitive courtship and aesthetic judgment/choice : Darwin's model of the arts
- The arts as promoters of social cooperation and cohesion
- Engagement in the arts as ontogenetic self-(trans-)formation
- A cooptation model of the evolution of the human arts : the special role of play behavior
- Technology, and symbolic cognition.