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BioaestheticsMaking Sense of Life in Science and the Arts$
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Bioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts

Carsten Strathausen

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9781517900755

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2018

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900755.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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(p.1) Introduction
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Bioaesthetics
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Carsten Strathausen

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9781517900755.003.0001

The “Introduction” serves to delimit and conceptualize what I call “bio-aesthetics”: an interdisciplinary, historically informed and epistemologically balanced approach to the study of art and human culture that avoids both the constructivist frenzy of the 1990’s, on the one hand, and academe’s current obsession with biological reductionism and evolutionary theory, on the other.

Keywords:   Art, Aesthetics, Biology, Neuroscience, Cognition, neo-darwinisim, autopoiesis, system theory, history of science, interdisciplinarity

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