Examines the notion of aesthetic experience as well as its value. This title brings together major voices that have directly theorised the concept of aesthetic

"George Hagman looks anew at psychoanalytic ideas about art and beauty through the lens of current developmental psychology that recognizes the importance of at

A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.

Despite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet’s Woman with a Parrot and listening to Elgar’s Cello Concerto, both experiences provoke simila

This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. T