La teoria darwiniana sulla musica e la retorica

This essay offers a new perspective on Darwin’s evolutionary theorizing on the human arts of music, poetry and rhetoric. It argues that Darwin’s theory of the human arts is primarily a theory of their effects on our emotions. Contrary to the topical understanding Darwin nowhere claimed that the musi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winfried Menninghaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2013-11-01
Series:Rivista di Estetica
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1443