What is it about?
Science helps us know the world. Art helps us know how we feel about it. Aesthetics should not be understood as simply a question of taste and beauty; it involves the science of human perception itself. A study of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" shows how the poet simulates for the reader a felt reality, what it is like to feel connected to the world we experience.
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Why is it important?
The processes of minding, metaphor, and iconicity in poetic expression provide the groundwork for describing the aesthetic structures of the imaginative faculty that are integral elements for the development of a comprehensive theory of mind.
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Revisiting Giambattista Vico's "New Science" reveals the nature of aesthetics as opposed to Descartes' scientific methodology, thus supporting the cognitive notion of the embodied mind.
Professor Margaret H. Freeman
Los Angeles Valley College
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This page is a summary of: The Aesthetics of Human Experience: Minding, Metaphor, and Icon in Poetic Expression, Poetics Today, December 2011, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-1459863.
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