Aesthetics, Mind, and Nature: A Communication Approach to the Unity of Matter and Consciousness
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Aesthetics, Mind, and Nature: A Communication Approach to the Unity of Matter and Consciousness
By (Author) Asghar Minai
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th June 1993
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
111
Physical Properties
Hardback
352
Description
Minai develops the idea that an aesthetic value is not necessarily an objective value reasoned by rationality. Beauty is a matter of chance and necessity in the nature of things, a matter of the order of things and the circumstances of their interconnections, or predictable and unpredictable forces. To know such a complex system we need to establish a view of phenomenology and hermeneutics, a world view where bad and good and ugly and beautiful are part of a continuum of changes and differences. In that world view, it is essential to have an understanding of mind, nature, and the epistemology of knowing.
Author Bio
ASGHAR TALAYE MINAI is Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Howard University. He is the author of Architecture as Environmental Communication (1984) and Design as Aesthetic Communication: Structuring Random-Order (1989).
