scholarly journals Embodied Mind and Neural Underpinnings of the Aesthetic Experience. A Case Study from the German Eighteenth Century: 4E Cognition Theories Forecasted by Johann Gottfried Herder

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Renata Gambino ◽  
Grazia Pulvirenti
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Johann Gottfried Herder ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
4E Cognition ◽  
Neural Underpinnings ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Core Issues

Recent theories within the avenue of the bio-cultural turn, and particularly about embodied cognition are forecasted in the anthropological, philosophical, physiological and scientific debate of the late 18th century in Germany. Philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder contributed to this discourse sigificantly, opening up new perspectives on the link among thought and language and body. In this paper we aim at highlighting some core issues of Herders’s discourse about knowledge, perception and cognition, that seem to anticipate some of the most recent 4E Cognition issues.

Intuitions about mathematical beauty: A case study in the aesthetic experience of ideas

Cognition ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 242-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel G.B. Johnson ◽  
Stefan Steinerberger
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Mathematical Beauty ◽  
The Aesthetic

scholarly journals Important Factors Affecting Rural Tourists’ Aesthetic Experience: A Case Study of Zoumatang Village in Ningbo

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7594
Author(s):  
Weiwei Zhou ◽  
Li-Yu Chen ◽  
Rung-Jiun Chou
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
The Aesthetic

China’s countryside is rich in cultural heritage. It is an important engine for rural development and revitalization. How to improve the tourists’ satisfaction with their aesthetic experience, raise the revisit rate and loyalty, and provide new methods and ideas for re-understanding the tourism experience is a topic worth discussing. This study chose Zoumatang Village in Ningbo, China, as the research target, and explored the important factors affecting tourists’ satisfaction with the aesthetic experience of their visit. Through a literature review and eight experts applying the Delphi method, this paper develops a framework of important criteria for the Zoumatang Village aesthetic experience. It then ranks their importance and causal relationships using the DEMATEL-based ANP method. It also combines 16 important factors for tourist satisfaction to explore improvement measures. The research results show that pleasure is the most critical factor of the aesthetic experience offered by Zoumatang Village with interactivity, variety, associability, sociability, and stewardship as factors that need to be improved given that naturalness lies at the heart of tourists’ aesthetic experience. The evaluation model of this study can provide a reference for improving the aesthetic experience of Zoumatang Village in particular, and the research methods and ideas for rural tourism development planning and integrated marketing in general. The findings can be used when investigating aesthetic experience, questionnaire making, and evaluation optimization related to tourism.

scholarly journals Modernism and “Aesthetic Experience”: Art, Aesthetics – and the Role of Modernism

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Kyndrup
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
High Modernism ◽  
Modern System ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
General Conditions

The role and influence of Modernism is the focus of this article. Modernism’s lasting and unforeseeable influence is due to its key importance to the development of the general conditions of art within modernity. Along with Modernism, the implications of the modern system of art became visible for real. Modernism produced the necessity of rethinking the distinction between “art” and “the aesthetic,” based on their original foundations in the 18th century, respectively – a call for a “divorce” after the long-lived marriage between the two, installed by Romanticism. Furthermore so-called postmodernism and today’s contemporary art have in fact not, as often assumed, really broken with high Modernism. What we see is rather a transformation of a time-based modus into a more spatially defined approach. The interpretations of Modernism itself are thus being altered, when regarded with a postmodern awareness of its surrounding enunciative space. The interrelationship between the modernisms, and what followed, is therefore achieving the character of an entanglement rather than that of a straight and clear development. Modernism’s influence, it is finally asserted, is seemingly not at its conclusion, but rather at its reoccurring beginning.

‘Lowthian’ Linguistics across the North Sea

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gijsbert Rutten
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The North ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Prescriptive Grammar ◽  
International Comparative

Summary This paper focuses on Dutch grammar-writing in the 18th century so as to put the linguistic works of Robert Lowth (1710–1787) in an international, comparative perspective. It demonstrates that certain characteristics of the “Lowthian” approach to grammar and of 18th-century English linguistics in general are parallelled by similar developments in the history of Dutch linguistics. The transition from normative grammar to prescriptive grammar which characterises the English late 18th century has a counterpart in the Dutch development from ‘civil’ to national grammar. Lowth’s recognition of different stylistic levels with corresponding levels of grammatical acceptability has a Dutch counterpart as well. The transition towards prescriptivism and the relevance of different stylistic levels are closely connected, which is exemplified by a case study on the treatment of adnominal inflection in 18th-century grammars of Dutch.

scholarly journals Operationalising the Sublime: Remediation of the Horokiwi Quarry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Rosier
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Early 18Th Century

<p>Landscape designers have been fixated on the aesthetic category of the sublime ever since its emergence in the early 18th century, yet the concept has tended to escape the grasp of many of those who have grappled with its complexities. The capacity of the sublime to overwhelm a body is attractive to designers but tends to be seen as difficult to represent, and therefore design with. This thesis examines the sublime as an aesthetic experience that is fundamental to how landscape designers engage with their medium. It traces the relationship between the sublime and the discipline from the 18th-century to the dominant form of contemporary systems-based designing. The challenge of engaging with the pre-existing is central to landscape design practices yet has received little attention throughout the past two decades. Responding to this deferral from aesthetics by contemporary landscape architectural discourse and practice, the thesis unpacks the works of several designer-thinkers who establish a community of practice for exploring the aesthetic relationship to the pre-existing landscape. In order to operationalise the sublime, the thesis proposes a design model based on Gilles Deleuze’s notions of intensity, problematics, affects, and assemblage – one that is closer to the 18th century theorists – as a productive means through which designers both represent and adjust its operations. This model is explored through a practice-led design research project. The Horokiwi Quarry in Wellington, New Zealand acts as a testbed for developing and documenting design techniques suited to the sublime. This study seeks to give expression – re-present and experience – the affectual dimensions of sublime encounters discovered within the Horokiwi Quarry. In this, drawings and other forms of representation are required to explicate and later modify the spatio-temporal relations that give rise to the sublime.</p>

scholarly journals Operationalising the Sublime: Remediation of the Horokiwi Quarry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Rosier
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Early 18Th Century

<p>Landscape designers have been fixated on the aesthetic category of the sublime ever since its emergence in the early 18th century, yet the concept has tended to escape the grasp of many of those who have grappled with its complexities. The capacity of the sublime to overwhelm a body is attractive to designers but tends to be seen as difficult to represent, and therefore design with. This thesis examines the sublime as an aesthetic experience that is fundamental to how landscape designers engage with their medium. It traces the relationship between the sublime and the discipline from the 18th-century to the dominant form of contemporary systems-based designing. The challenge of engaging with the pre-existing is central to landscape design practices yet has received little attention throughout the past two decades. Responding to this deferral from aesthetics by contemporary landscape architectural discourse and practice, the thesis unpacks the works of several designer-thinkers who establish a community of practice for exploring the aesthetic relationship to the pre-existing landscape. In order to operationalise the sublime, the thesis proposes a design model based on Gilles Deleuze’s notions of intensity, problematics, affects, and assemblage – one that is closer to the 18th century theorists – as a productive means through which designers both represent and adjust its operations. This model is explored through a practice-led design research project. The Horokiwi Quarry in Wellington, New Zealand acts as a testbed for developing and documenting design techniques suited to the sublime. This study seeks to give expression – re-present and experience – the affectual dimensions of sublime encounters discovered within the Horokiwi Quarry. In this, drawings and other forms of representation are required to explicate and later modify the spatio-temporal relations that give rise to the sublime.</p>

scholarly journals Reception of Francis Hutcheson’s Views in Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy of the Power of Judgment

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Marta Śliwa
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Critical Philosophy ◽  
Francis Hutcheson ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
New Research

The following dissertation aims at presenting the dependencies between the aesthetic theory by the Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson and the critic philosophy by Immanuel Kant. Those issues seem to be worth discussing in the light of some new research into the British aesthetics: particularly, for its significance in the field of newly created domain that aesthetic has become after Alexander Baumgarten and, mostly, after critical philosophy by Immanuel Kant. The comparison of the views held by Hutcheson and Kant shows the importance of the theory of beauty presented by the Scottish philosopher that results not only from his acknowledging the epistemological significance of an aesthetic experience and accepting that it is conditioned by disinterestedness of perception. What is important is Hutcheson’s place in the evolution of the concept of aesthetics, which took place in the 18th century and which was crowned by Kant and his Critique of the Power of Judgment.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the duty of water: a study of emergent norms in socio-hydrology

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 7517-7536 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Wescoat
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Application Rate ◽  
Canal Irrigation ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Western Us ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
Hydrologic System

Abstract. This paper assesses changing norms of water use known as the duty of water. It is a case study in historical socio-hydrology, a line of research useful for anticipating changing social values with respect to water. The duty of water is currently defined as the amount of water reasonably required to irrigate a substantial crop with careful management and without waste on a given tract of land. The historical section of the paper traces this concept back to late-18th century analysis of steam engine efficiencies for mine dewatering in Britain. A half-century later, British irrigation engineers fundamentally altered the concept of duty to plan large-scale canal irrigation systems in northern India at an average duty of 218 acres per cubic foot per second (cfs). They justified this extensive irrigation standard (i.e., low water application rate over large areas) with a suite of social values that linked famine prevention with revenue generation and territorial control. Several decades later irrigation engineers in the western US adapted the duty of water concept to a different socio-hydrologic system and norms, using it to establish minimum standards for water rights appropriation (e.g., only 40 to 80 acres per cfs). The final section shows that while the duty of water concept has now been eclipsed by other measures and standards of water efficiency, it may have continuing relevance for anticipating if not predicting emerging social values with respect to water.

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