Beauty: The Value Of Values

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
• | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 156 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813930693
• | ISBN-13: 9780813930695