Chris Danta Livres

This work offers a significant reevaluation of fables, particularly in light of Darwin's theories, exploring how literature reflects and shapes the human-animal relationship. It delves into the implications of evolutionary thought on storytelling and examines the evolving dynamics between humans and animals in literary contexts. Through critical analysis, the book challenges traditional narratives and invites readers to reconsider the moral and philosophical dimensions of fables in the post-Darwinian era.

In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind. This cognitive turn has been equally generative and contentious. While cognitive literary studies has reinforced how central the concept of mind is to aesthetic practice from the classical period to the present, critics have questioned its literalism and selective borrowing of scientific authority. Mindful Aesthetics presents both these perspectives as part of a broader consideration of the ongoing and vital importance of shifting concepts of mind to both literary and critical practice. This collection contributes to the forging of a ‘new interdisciplinarity,' to paraphrase Alan Richardson's recent preface to the Neural Sublime, that is more concerned with addressing how, rather than why, we should navigate the increasingly narrow gap between the humanities and the sciences.