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Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture, Hardback Book

Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture Hardback

Edited by Joseph Carroll, Mathias Clasen, Emelie Jonsson

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This pioneering volume offers an expansive introduction to the relatively new field of evolutionary studies in imaginative culture.

Contributors from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and the humanities probe the evolved human imagination and its artefacts.

The book forcefully demonstrates that imagination is part of human nature.

Contributors explore imaginative culture in seven main areas:Imagination: Evolution, Mechanisms and FunctionsMyth and ReligionAesthetic TheoryMusicVisual and Plastic ArtsVideo Games and FilmsOral Narratives and LiteratureEvolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture widens the scope of evolutionary cultural theory to include much of what "culture" means in common usage.

The contributors aim to convince scholars in both the humanities and the evolutionary human sciences that biology and imaginative culture are intimately intertwined.

The contributors illuminate this broad theoretical argument with comprehensive insights into religion, ideology, personal identity, and many particular works of art, music, literature, film, and digital media. The chapters "Imagination, the Brain's Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts" and "The Role of Aesthetic Style in Alleviating Anxiety About the Future" are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:423 pages, 12 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 423 p. 12 illus.; 12 Illustrations, black and whit
  • Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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  • ISBN:9783030461898

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  • Out of stock

  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:423 pages, 12 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 423 p. 12 illus.; 12 Illustrations, black and whit
  • Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9783030461898