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(2015) Aesthetics and the embodied mind, Dordrecht, Springer.
Aesthetics as an emotional activity that facilitates sense-making
towards an enactive approach to aesthetic experience
Ioannis Xenakis , Argyris Arnellos
pp. 245-259
Nowadays, aesthetics are generally considered as a crucial aspect that affects the way we confront things, events, and states of affairs. However, the functional role of aesthetics in the interaction between agent and environment has not been addressed effectively. Our objective here is to provide an explanation concerning the role of aesthetics, and especially, of the aesthetic experience as a fundamental bodily and emotional activity in the respective interactions. An explanation of the functional role of the aesthetic experience could offer new orientations to our understanding of embodied cognition and of aesthetics as a fundamental part of it. We argue that aesthetic experience, especially its emotional dimension, is an evaluative process that influences the anticipation for stable and successful interactions with the environment. In other words, aesthetics facilitates sense-making as they affect what might be anticipated by an action tendency with respect to an environment.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9379-7_15
Full citation:
Xenakis, I. , Arnellos, A. (2015)., Aesthetics as an emotional activity that facilitates sense-making: towards an enactive approach to aesthetic experience, in , Aesthetics and the embodied mind, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 245-259.
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