Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)

The essay focuses on the Italian evolutionist Tito Vignoli, whose work is the result of a fruitful contamination between philosophy, history of religion, linguistics, ethnography, anthropology, psychology, zoology and physiology. His most regarded book, Mito e scienza (1879), and some of his minor w...

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Main Author: Elena Canadelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-12-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/678
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spelling doaj-061c55bd71064fbe82d9fc0f276540042020-11-25T02:26:23ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662013-12-0162Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)Elena CanadelliThe essay focuses on the Italian evolutionist Tito Vignoli, whose work is the result of a fruitful contamination between philosophy, history of religion, linguistics, ethnography, anthropology, psychology, zoology and physiology. His most regarded book, Mito e scienza (1879), and some of his minor writings deal with the theory of myth, art and aesthetics in the new framework of Darwin's ideas.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/678evolutionary aestheticsTito Vignolimyththeory of evolution
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Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)
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evolutionary aesthetics
Tito Vignoli
myth
theory of evolution
author_facet Elena Canadelli
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title Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)
title_short Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)
title_full Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)
title_fullStr Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)
title_full_unstemmed Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)
title_sort man and animal. the evolutionary aesthetics of tito vignoli (1824-1914)
publisher Firenze University Press
series Aisthesis
issn 2035-8466
publishDate 2013-12-01
description The essay focuses on the Italian evolutionist Tito Vignoli, whose work is the result of a fruitful contamination between philosophy, history of religion, linguistics, ethnography, anthropology, psychology, zoology and physiology. His most regarded book, Mito e scienza (1879), and some of his minor writings deal with the theory of myth, art and aesthetics in the new framework of Darwin's ideas.
topic evolutionary aesthetics
Tito Vignoli
myth
theory of evolution
url https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/678
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