Valsiner | ORNAMENTED LIVES | Buch | 978-1-64113-468-2 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

Reihe: Advances in Cultural Psychology

Valsiner

ORNAMENTED LIVES


Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-64113-468-2
Verlag: Information Age Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

Reihe: Advances in Cultural Psychology

ISBN: 978-1-64113-468-2
Verlag: Information Age Publishing

Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author’s theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely “decorations” but play the important role of guiding the affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between basic forms—linear and curvilinear. This tension is present in human construction of environments—natural growth involves curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity. The basic tension between linear and curvilinear infinities is expressed in the use of spiral forms in art and architecture. The book builds a theoretical account of human beings constantly creating sublime life occasions that give them affective charge for dramatizations of ordinary living. Episodically the sublime acquires new quality— becomes aesthetic. The coverage in this book links the aesthetic, the sublime, and the mundane into one theoretical scheme within cultural psychology.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Valsiner, Jaan

Fachgebiete

Weitere Infos & Material

- Preface
- Part I: Roots Of Beauty
- Chapter 1: Philosophies of the Sublime, and of the Beautiful
- Chapter 2: From Point and Line to Spiral: Dialogues Within Wholes
- Chapter 3: Flowers in Frames: Directionality in the Field
- Part II: Looking Far To See Near: Windows Into Ourselves
- Chapter 4: Landscapes: The Feeling of Awe
- Chapter 5: Iconic Fields: Plurifunctionality of the Image
- Chapter 6: Architectural Forms: Silent Guidance for Human Feeling
- Part III: Embodiment Of Affective Fields
- Chapter 7: Schematization and Pleromatization
- Chapter 8: Beyond the Fall: The Psyche on the Body
- Chapter 9: A Glimpse Into the Interior of the Psyche
- Chapter 10: General Conclusions: Affective Forms in Human Lives
- References
- About the Author

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