Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
No prior work has so firmly established that neuroscience and aesthetics can be mutually illuminating. Informed by her rich knowledge of art history and literature, Starr deciphers brain scans with unprecedented subtlety, drawing important lessons about the embodied nature of aesthetic experience and the hidden unity of seemingly disparate arts.(Jesse Prinz, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center; author ofThe Conscious Brain,Beyond Human Nature, andFurnishing the Mind)G. Gabrielle Starr exhibits a rare constellation of skills: a fine literary sensitivity coupled with extensive knowledge of recent work in neuroscience. As a result,Feeling Beautyrepresents a new level of excellence in neuroaesthetics. This groundbreaking field is lucky to count G. Gabrielle Starr among its finest practitioners.(Tamar Szabo Gendler, Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Yale University)