Sociobiology and the Arts

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-420-0584-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bedaux, Jan Baptist

Cooke, Brett

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Soziobiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Marcel ROELE and Jan WIND: Sociobiology and the Arts. An Introduction. Ellen DISSANAYAKE: Sociobiology and the Arts: Problems and Prospects. Brett COOKE: The Promise of a Biothematics. Frederick TURNER: The Sociobiology of Beauty. Eric S. RABKIN: Vegetable, Animal, Human: The Perils and Powers of Transgressing Sociobiological Bounderies in Narrative. Jan Baptist BEDAUX: From Normal to Supranormal: Observations on Realism and Idealism from a Biological Perspective. Christa SÜTTERLIN: Ethological Aspects of Apotropaic Symbolism in Art. Nancy E. AIKEN: How Art Arouses Emotion. Gary COX: The Biology of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Cultural Text as Adaptive Mechanism. Paul van den AKKER: Visual Order in Figurative Art: To Zoom in on Mannerism. Andras LUDMANY: The Adaptive Role of the Aesthetic Experience: An Epistemological Approach. Thierry LENAIN: Animal Aesthetics and Human Art. Koen DEPRYCK: Toward an Archeology and Futurology of Mind: Possible Evolutionary Advantages of Learning Difficulties. Brett COOKE: Pushkin and the Memetics of Reputation.