Aesthetics, Mind, and Nature: A Communication Approach to the Unity of Matter and Consciousness

Minai, Asghar

ISBN 10: 0275942961 / ISBN 13: 9780275942960

Published by Praeger, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aesthetics, Mind, and Nature: A Communication Approach to the Unity of Matter and Consciousness
• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275942961
• ISBN 13: 9780275942960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).