Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of "art" production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to reve
The classic fairy tales by Perrault ( La Barbe-Bleu ) and Tieck ( The Seven Wives of Bluebeard ) thumb their Romantic noses at the Kantian judgment that: "All the richness of imagination in its lawles
Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's
