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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 311 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the role that art and culture play in nature and the evolutionary process. Taking his inspiration from Charles Darwin's observation that birds have a natural aesthetic sense, Rothenberg dives into the mysteries of why we create art, and why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty.Sexual selection may explain why animals desire, but it says very little about what...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
179 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book, the nightingale?s song is so peculiar in part because it reflects our own cacophony back at us. As vocal learners, nightingales acquire their music through the world around them, singing amidst the sounds of humanity in all its contradictions of noise and beauty, hard machinery and soft melody.
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