Recasting Aesthetic Experience

Emotions and the "Continuity Principle"

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736988842
• Edition: 1

This volume aims at highlighting the role of the interdependent relation between emotion and cognition in the bodily mediated pre-linguistic meaning constitution in aesthetic experience and perception and focuses on the current discussions about the role of the body and of emotions in perception and aesthetic meaning-making. The role of self-perceptions and self-reports in the measurement of emotion-related variables as well as the investigation of visualization as media feedback, muscular tension and motor activation in aesthetic experience within the framework of embodied and enactive cognitive science is put into focus. The volume contributes to better understand why, at present, ecological approaches to aesthetics fail to deliver a cognitive science of art for pretty much the same reasons neuroaesthetics and embodied or enactive aesthetics provide one.

Table of contents

• Table of Content
• Introduction: Emotion, Cognition and the “Continuity Principle”
• On the Deeper Roots of Trait Emotional Intelligence
• Emotions and the generation of meaning in the arts
• Society as a collective body. Styles of embodiment in the arts as symptoms of social change
• The Models of the Aesthetic Experience in Modern American Art Education
• Enacting Visualization. Mental Imagery and the Role of Pictures
• Contribution of Muscular Tension to Aesthetic Emotions
• Aesthetic Experience in Art-Practice: Creativity as a Pre-Linguistic Felt Quality
• Optimal Experience, Creativity, and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
• Ecoaesthetics and the prospects of a cognitive science of art
• The Mind-Body-Continuity Principle in Communication: An Integrative Perspective Via the Theory of Concept-Holes
• Music and Emotions
• Hearts Unchained: The Cognitive Basis of Love in English and Serbian Popular Music
• Biographies