Evolutionary perspectives on imaginative culture

Evolutionary perspectives on imaginative culture / Jospeh Carroll, Mathias Clasen, Emelie Jonsson, editors.

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 tha...

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Other Authors: Carroll, Joseph (Editor), Clasen, Mathias (Editor), Jonsson, Emelie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Subjects:
Imagination.
Culture > Psychological aspects.
The self, ego, identity, personality.
Psychology > Personality.
Culture > Psychological aspects
Imagination
Imaginació.
Electronic books.
Llibres electrònics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I : Imagination : evolution, mechanisms, and functions
  • Imagination, the brain's default mode network, and imaginative verbal artifacts
  • The evolution of imagination and fiction through generativity and narrative
  • Imagination, symbolic cognition, and human evolution : the early arts facilitated group survival
  • Part II : Myth and religion
  • Mimesis and myth : evolutionary roots of psychological self-understanding
  • Imagining the gods
  • Part III : Aesthetic theory
  • Key stimuli and power objects : aesthetics and our innate sensibilities
  • The role of aesthetic style in alleviating anxiety about the future
  • Part IV : Music
  • Music and the evolution of embodied cognition
  • Part V : Visual and plastic arts
  • The influence of image salience on the artistic renditions of cave lions in the early upper paleolithic
  • Evolutionary constraints on creativity in the visual and plastic arts
  • Part VI : Video games and films
  • "Unbreakable, incorruptible, unyielding" : Doom as an agency simulator
  • Cliodynamics and dramatic performances
  • Part VII : Oral narratives and literature
  • Descent with imagination : oral traditions as evolutionary lineages
  • I'm with you till the end of the line : the romanticization of male bonds
  • Literary representations of parental investment : fitness quandaries and strategic decisions
  • Why the world is a better place with Stephen King in it : an evolutionary perspective
  • Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad's confrontation with amoral nature.

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