Table of Contents
Introduction
Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts
The Evolution of Imagination: An Archaeological Perspective
Literature and Evolution
The Neurology of Narrative
Becoming Homo Aestheticus : Sources of Aesthetic Imagination in Mother-Infant Interactions
Dreams: The Royal Road to Metaphor
The Epilogue of Suffering: Heroism, Empathy, Ethics
Desiring Agency: Limiting Metaphors and Enabling Constraints in Dawkins and Deleuze/Guattari
Cultural Texts and Endopsychic Scripts
Why and How to Take the Fruit and Leave the Chaff
Dialogue
Humanists, Scientists, and the Cultural Surplus
Transcending Biological and Social Reductionism
“If You Depict a Bird, Give it Space to Fly”: Eastern Psychologies, the Arts, and Self-Knowledge
Potentialities (review)
Sade: The Invention of the Libertine Body (review)
What Is A Woman?: And Other Essays (review)
L’Arbre de Cracovie: Le mythe polonais dans la litterature francaise (review)