Aesthetics after Darwin : the multiple origins and functions of art /
The book reveals a strong humanist heritage which renders Darwin's theory of song and poetic language far more nuanced and interesting than a monolithic ""singing for sex"" hypothesis.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Evolution, cognition, and the arts.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
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.
