Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions

Descripción

The book offers a systematic study of selected aesthetic and moral emotions (beauty, admiration and disgust, anger, guilt, and the feeling of (in)justice). The text simultaneously offers an outline of a new theory of emotions and the possibilities for their linguistic apprehension through the geometry of thought. Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions is a collective volume published by Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften in 2024. Addressed to researchers, scholars, students and professionals in semantics, it offers a rigorous academic perspective on the topics discussed and contributes to current debates in the discipline.