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__Bio-Aesthetics. A Critique__ examines the rising influence of evolutionary theory across academic disciplines today. Empowered by neo-Darwinian theory and recent advances in neuroscientific research, nascent academic fields have particularly challenged the Humanities’ non-empirical and largely speculative approach to modern art, culture, and aesthetic theory. In its stead, evolutionary scholars advocate a strict biological functionalism that effectively reduces mind to brain and art to science. Unfortunately, Humanities’ scholars so far have been slow to respond to this challenge. __Bio-Aesthetics__ remedies this problem by providing the first comprehensive account of current evolutionary and neuroscientific approaches to art and human culture to demonstrate both the need for and the limits of interdisciplinary research in the Humanities. Above all, __Bio-Aesthetics__ is __A Critique__ in the Kantian sense of the term: it works through a critical appraisal of neo-Darwinian reductionism in order to develop a more germane and balanced methodology for future collaborative research across disciplines. __Bio-Aesthetics__ central argument contends that Kant’s transcendentalism amounts

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Author

Carsten Strathausen

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781517900748

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Art