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Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues with Tony O'Connor on Society, Art, and Friendship (Contributions To Phenomenology) by Francis Halsall
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9400715080 | PDF | 223 pages | 1,2 MB

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices brings together eminent international philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence of critical communities and aesthetic practices. Their contributions share a hermeneutical commitment to dialogue, both as a model for critique and as a generator of community.

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Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience

Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience by Arthur P. Shimamura and Stephen E. Palmer
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0199732140 , 0199355800 | ISBN-13: 9780199732142 , 9780199355808 | 424 pages | PDF | 4,2 MB

What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an "aesthetic" experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye (and brain) of the beholder? Such questions have entertained philosophers for millennia and psychologists for over a century. More recently, with the advent of functional neuroimaging methods, a handful of ambitious brain scientists have begun to explore the neural correlates of such experiences.

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