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Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture

Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture

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This pioneering volume explores the evolved human imagination and its artefacts, demonstrating that imagination is part of human nature. Contributors from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and the humanities investigate seven main areas, including myth and religion, aesthetic theory, music, visual and plastic arts, video games and films, oral narratives, and literature. The book aims to convince scholars in both the humanities and evolutionary human sciences that biology and imaginative culture are intimately intertwined.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 423 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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:

  1. Imagination: Evolution, Mechanisms and Functions
  2. Myth and Religion
  3. Aesthetic Theory
  4. Music
  5. Visual and Plastic Arts
  6. Video Games and Films
  7. Oral Narratives and Literature

Evolutionary 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/).

Weight: 664g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030461928
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020

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