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The Aesthetic Animal by Henrik Høgh-Olesen is a psychology available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Aesthetic Animal about?
The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction. Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities. However, nature would not allow a species to waste precious time and effort on activities completely unrelated to survival, reproduction, and the well-being of that species. Consequently, the aesthetic impulse must
Who reads The Aesthetic Animal?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henrik Høgh-Olesen
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190927936
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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