Handaxes: The First Aesthetic Artefacts
The first stone artefacts made by our human ancestors appear 2.5 million years ago and are referred to as the Oldowan culture. These are nodules of basalt, chert and limestone that have been struck with a hammerstone to remove flakes. Both the flakes and
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Eckart Voland· Karl Grammer (Eds.)
Evolutionary Aesthetics With 57 Figures, 11 in Colour, and 7 Tables
Springer
Professor Dr. ECKART VOLAND Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10 C 35394 Giessen Germany Professor Dr. KARL GRAMMER Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology University of Vienna Althanstrasse 14 1090 Vienna Austria
ISBN 978-3-642-07822-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Evolutionary aesthetics I Eckart Voland, Karl Grammer, eds. p. cm. "With 57 figures, 10 in color, and 7 tables". Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-642-07822-4 ISBN 978-3-662-07142-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-07142-7 I. Aesthetics-Psychological aspects. 2. Evolutionary psychology. l. Voland, Eckart, 1949- II. Grammer, Karl, 1950BH30l.P78E96 2003 111' .85-dc21 This work is subject to copyright. All rights reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
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Preface
This book was initiated by a roundtable meeting in April 2001 which was organized by the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Altenberg, Austria. The symposium brought together scientists from various fields who presented their ideas on the evolution of aesthetics. Aesthetics, as a discipline of philosophy, truly has a rich intellectual history. One therefore might be inclined to capitulate to its philosophical complexity. Recent developments in evolutionary theory, however, have helped to successfully naturalize the specific Humana, above all epistemology and ethics. This observation encouraged us, also trying to bring together aesthetics with the Darwinian paradigm. The present volume, therefore, can be understood as a kind of a "Darwinian sonde" in a field traditionally occupied by non-Darwinian lines of arguments. We thank the staff of the KLI for thei
