Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature

Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
ISBN-10
0809089173
ISBN-13
9780809089178
Category
Art
Pages
305
Language
English
Published
2015-09-22
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Alva Noë

Description

A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.

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