Beauty: The Value of Values

by Frederick Turner and Frederick Turner

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Frederick Turner presents a new theory of aesthetics based on the argument that beauty is an objective reality in the universe. He identifies the experience of beauty as a pancultural, neurobiological phenomenon. Drawing on a wide range of fields - ritual and dramatic performance, the oral tradition, paleoanthropology and human evolution, neurobiology, cosmology and theoretic physics, chaos theory and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813913578
• ISBN13: 9780813913575
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher