Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy - Scarinzi, Alfonsina (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2015)
Chapter 1 Introduction to a Non-classical View of Meaning-making and Human Cognition: Meaning-making as a Socially Distributed and Embodied Practice -- Part I Embodied Aesthetics: The Anti-Cartesian View and Aesthetics of Life -- Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Embodied Life -- Chapter 3 Dewey's Aesthetics of Body-Mind Functioning -- Chapter 4 Corpo-real Cognition: Pragmatist Aesthetics in William James -- Chapter 5 Ecological Embodiment, Tragic Consciousness, and the Aesthetics of Possibility: Creating an Art of Living -- Chapter 6 Emotionally Charged Experience -- Part II Neuroscience, Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind -- Chapter 7 Embodied Aesthetics : Insight from Cognitive Neuroscience of Performing Arts -- Chapter 8 The Aesthetic Stance - On the Conditions and Consequences of Becoming a Beholder -- Part III Art Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy -- Chapter 9 The Last 'Touch' Turns the Artist into a User: The Body, The Mind and The Social Aspect of Art -- Chapter 10 Art that Moves: Exploring the Embodied Basis of Art Representation, Production, and Evaluation -- Chapter 11 The Experience of Literariness: Affective and Narrative Aspects -- Chapter 12 A Qualitative Study of Aesthetic Reflection as Embodied Interpretation -- Part IV Radicalizing the Anti-Cartesian View: Enactivism in Aesthetics -- Chapter 13 Enactive Aesthetics: Philosophical Reflections on Artful Minds -- Chapter 14 Neuroaesthetics as an Enactive Enterprise -- Chapter 15 Aesthetics as an Emotional Activity That Facilitates Sense-making: Towards an Enactive Approach in Aesthetic Experience -- Chapter 16 Enactive Literariness and Aesthetic Experience: from Mental Schemata to Anti-representationalism -- Part V Creating with and for the Embodied Mind -- Chapter 17 Creativity in Digital Fine Art -- Chapter 18 Autopoietic Aesthetics as a Lens for Interactive Art -- Chapter 19 No Neuron Is an Island: a Neuroaesthetic Inquiry into Omer Fast's Mimetic Interactions.
Keywords: Philosophy; Aesthetics; Phenomenology; Cognitive psychology