Representation, Rightness and The Fringe

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Author: Mangan, Bruce

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 15, Number 9, 2008 , pp. 75-82(8)

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Abstract:

So the central question here is phenomenological: What is the nature of the aesthetic zap? For it is this experience, or its promise, which gives art such a deep hold on human life. But the issue of representation, while secondary, is still pregnant with cognitive implications: Why is representation, of all the devices available to an artist, more likely to shift the odds in favour of eliciting and/or intensifying aesthetic experience? Assuming a Darwinian view of our species, it is likely that the answer to both questions will come from understanding how our capacity to enjoy art grows out of normal cognition.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Email: mangan@cogsci.berkeley.edu

Publication date: 2008-01-01