In spite of the great number of publications, contemporary evolutionary aesthetics seems to have reached deadlock, for the lack of a real epistemological reflection on the theoretical nucleus of its own experimental investigations. Starting from an introduction to the current debate, the essay aims to indicate the basic points of a theoretical model able to face speculative risks and methodological complexities of contemporary evolutionary aesthetics. In this very perspective is placed the analysis of Darwin’s sexual paradigm, and the hypothesis of partially revising it in order to extend the notion of aesthetics as an expressive and intrinsically motivated dimension of animal cognition.
Quale storia naturale per l'estetico? L'ipotesi darwiniana rivisitata / Lorenzo Bartalesi. - In: RIVISTA DI ESTETICA. - ISSN 0035-6212. - STAMPA. - 54:(2013), pp. 7-25.
Quale storia naturale per l'estetico? L'ipotesi darwiniana rivisitata
BARTALESI, LORENZO
2013
Abstract
In spite of the great number of publications, contemporary evolutionary aesthetics seems to have reached deadlock, for the lack of a real epistemological reflection on the theoretical nucleus of its own experimental investigations. Starting from an introduction to the current debate, the essay aims to indicate the basic points of a theoretical model able to face speculative risks and methodological complexities of contemporary evolutionary aesthetics. In this very perspective is placed the analysis of Darwin’s sexual paradigm, and the hypothesis of partially revising it in order to extend the notion of aesthetics as an expressive and intrinsically motivated dimension of animal cognition.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.