Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy
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, assum...
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Dordrecht :
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2015.
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| Series: | Contributions to phenomenology ;
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction to a Non-classical View of Meaning-making and Human Cognition: Meaning-making as a Socially Distributed and Embodied Practice
- Part I Embodied Aesthetics: The Anti-Cartesian View and Aesthetics of Life
- Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Embodied Life
- Chapter 3 Dewey’s Aesthetics of Body-Mind Functioning
- Chapter 4 Corpo-real Cognition: Pragmatist Aesthetics in William James
- Chapter 5 Ecological Embodiment, Tragic Consciousness, and the Aesthetics of Possibility: Creating an Art of Living
- Chapter 6 Emotionally Charged Experience
- Part II Neuroscience, Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind
- Chapter 7 Embodied Aesthetics : Insight from Cognitive Neuroscience of Performing Arts
- Chapter 8 The Aesthetic Stance – On the Conditions and Consequences of Becoming a Beholder
- Part III Art Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy
- Chapter 9 The Last ‘Touch’ Turns the Artist into a User: The Body, The Mind and The Social Aspect of Art
- Chapter 10 Art that Moves: Exploring the Embodied Basis of Art Representation, Production, and Evaluation
- Chapter 11 The Experience of Literariness: Affective and Narrative Aspects
- Chapter 12 A Qualitative Study of Aesthetic Reflection as Embodied Interpretation
- Part IV Radicalizing the Anti-Cartesian View: Enactivism in Aesthetics
- Chapter 13 Enactive Aesthetics: Philosophical Reflections on Artful Minds
- Chapter 14 Neuroaesthetics as an Enactive Enterprise
- Chapter 15 Aesthetics as an Emotional Activity That Facilitates Sense-making: Towards an Enactive Approach in Aesthetic Experience
- Chapter 16 Enactive Literariness and Aesthetic Experience: from Mental Schemata to Anti-representationalism
- Part V Creating with and for the Embodied Mind
- Chapter 17 Creativity in Digital Fine Art
- Chapter 18 Autopoietic Aesthetics as a Lens for Interactive Art
- Chapter 19 No Neuron Is an Island: a Neuroaesthetic Inquiry into Omer Fast’s Mimetic Interactions.