Neuroaesthetics A Methodsbased Introduction 1st Edition Tudor Balinisteanu by Tudor Balinisteanu, Kerry Priest 9783031423253, 3031423259 instant download after payment.

Since ancient, if not primordial, times, humans wondered about art: why do we have art? How did we come to have art? What is the value of having art? Why do we experience pleasure in relation to art, and why does some art engender more pleasure than other art, and that only, apparently, for some people and not for all of us? Answering such questions is beyond the scope of a single book.
Nor is it appropriate for a course manual to do more than set out the questions, provide informative contexts as well as equip readers and students with a basic set of skills to enable them to at least begin a journey of discovery. Hence, the present textbook aims to offer exactly that. We will begin a marvellous questing journey and walk the sometimes beaten, sometimes arduous, path, together, for a little while (at least for an academic semester). Hopefully, the journey will prove to be sufficiently interesting for you, the reader, to continue walking the path. Likely, you will never be alone on this sinuous journey. You will meet other scholar travellers, from many different disciplines, who will walk with you for a longer or shorter period of time. Together, you will find magical oases of thought, Grail-like questions to ask and answer, stormy weather, and calm seas. It will be a wondrous journey.