The Beauty of Organisms : Biological Aesthetics Between Darwin and Portmann
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4_12</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Beauty of Organisms : Biological Aesthetics Between Darwin and Portmann
Original language description
This chapter will deal with one of Adolf Portmann’s most characteristic topics – the aesthetic dimension of nature. Throughout his work, Portmann con-stantly draws attention to our inability to explain the richness and beauty of living forms solely through their functionality, usefulness, and fitness, as neo-Darwinism does. However, the neo-Darwinian interpretation of aesthetic phenomena in nature is very different from Darwin’s own thinking about the realm of organismal beauty. This chapter analyses Portmann’s arguments in this area as well as some parallels to Darwin’s while also analysing some misunderstandings, some of which were rooted in contemporary science. In some respects, Darwin was even more radical than Portmann, compared to neo-Darwinism. This chapter will show that, in the case of aesthetic phenomena in nature, there is a trilateral discussion between Portmann, (neo-) Darwinism and Darwin rather than a Portmann-Darwin opposition.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Adolf Portmann : A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life
ISBN
9783030678098
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
221-240
Number of pages of the book
273
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
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