Aesthetics and the embodied mind : beyond art theory and the Cartesian mind-body dichotomy
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Aesthetics and the embodied mind : beyond art theory and the Cartesian mind-body dichotomy
(Contributions to phenomenology, v. 73)
Springer, c2015
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The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic "Cartesian" paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a version of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but also from James and Peirce)-one primed from the start to see human beings not only as embodied, but as inseparable from the environment they interact with-and provides a forum for authors from diverse disciplines to address specific scientific and philosophical issues within the anti-dualistic framework considering aesthetic experience as a process of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from leading researchers including Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino.
The volume covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive science, literary studies, psychology of aesthetics, art and design, sociology.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction to a Non-classical View of Meaning-making and Human Cognition: Meaning-making as a Socially Distributed and Embodied Practice - Jessica Lindblom
Part I Embodied Aesthetics: The Anti-Cartesian View and Aesthetics of Life
2. The Aesthetics of Embodied Life - Mark Johnson
3. Dewey's Aesthetics of Body-Mind Functioning - Jim Garrison
4. Corpo-real Cognition: Pragmatist Aesthetics in William James - Thalia Trigoni
5. Ecological Embodiment, Tragic Consciousness, and the Aesthetics of Possibility: Creating an Art of Living - Tanya Jeffcoat
6. Emotionally Charged Experience - Pentti Maattanen
Part II Neuroscience, Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind
7. Embodied Aesthetics : Insight from Cognitive Neuroscience of Performing Arts - Luca F. Ticini, Cosimo Urgesi, Beatriz Calvo-Merino
8. The Aesthetic Stance - On the Conditions and Consequences of Becoming a Beholder - Maria Brincker
Part III Art Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy
9. The Last 'Touch' Turns the Artist into a User: The Body, The Mind and The Social Aspect of Art - Mariselda Tessarolo
10. Art that Moves: Exploring the Embodied Basis of Art Representation, Production, and Evaluation - Kendall J. Eskine, Aaron Kozbelt
11. The Experience of Literariness: Affective and Narrative Aspects - David Miall
12. A Qualitative Study of Aesthetic Reflection as Embodied Interpretation - Tracie E. Costantino
Part IV Radicalizing the Anti-Cartesian View: Enactivism in Aesthetics
13. Enactive Aesthetics: Philosophical Reflections on Artful Minds - Daniel D. Hutto
14. Neuroaesthetics as an Enactive Enterprise - Christian Tewes
15. Aesthetics as an Emotional Activity That Facilitates Sense-making: Towards an Enactive Approach in Aesthetic Experience - Ioannis Xenakis, Argyris Arnellos
16. Enactive Literariness and Aesthetic Experience: from Mental Schemata to Anti-representationalism - Alfonsina Scarinzi
Part V Creating with and for the Embodied Mind
17. Creativity in Digital Fine Art - John Haworth
18. Autopoietic Aesthetics as a Lens for Interactive Art - Jennifer Hall
19. No Neuron Is an Island: a Neuroaesthetic Inquiry into Omer Fast's Mimetic Interactions - Sally McKay
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