Abstract

Neuroaesthetics is new scientific discipline. Bibliometric data shows that publications indexed as neuroaesthetics only started to appear in the 2000s. There was, however, a history of work trying to furnish aesthetics with a neuroscientific basis that preceded the emergence of neuroaesthetics by 200 years. This chapter tries to explain what motivated this ambition and traces various attempts, spanning the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, to develop a physiological aesthetics. Through analysis of this intellectual history, I show that the effort to establish a neuroscience of aesthetics was wholly predicated on ideas about human psychology that predated any empirical understanding of the human brain, including the belief that the human mind contains dedicated psychological mechanisms for eliciting aesthetic experiences. I give examples of the way physiological theories of aesthetics remained speculative until the …
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelThe Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics
RedaktørerMartin Skov, Marcos Nadal
Antal sider28
Vol/bind1
ForlagRoutledge
Publikationsdato6 sep. 2022
Udgave1
Sider1-28
Kapitel1
StatusUdgivet - 6 sep. 2022

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