Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
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Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)

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  • Elena Canadelli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-13777

Published 2013-12-29

Keywords

  • evolutionary aesthetics,
  • Tito Vignoli,
  • myth,
  • theory of evolution

How to Cite

Canadelli, E. (2013). Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914). Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi dell’estetico, 6(2), 205–218. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-13777
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Abstract

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.
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