Beauty: The Value of Values (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813913575)

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.

Author: Frederick Turner
ISBN-10: 0813913578
ISBN-13: 9780813913575
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Language: English
Published: 02/20/1992
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d