Ornamented lives

• Main Author: Valsiner, Jaan (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, inc., 2019.
• Series: Advances in cultural psychology.
• Subjects: Culture > Psychological aspects.; Culture > Semiotic models.; Social psychology.; Psychology > Social Psychology.; Social, group or collective psychology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806607372
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64113-470-5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 pages.)

Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author's theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely "decorations&quo...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I. Roots of beauty
• Chapter 1. Philosophies of the sublime, and of the beautiful
• Chapter 2. From point and line to spiral: Dialogues within wholes
• Chapter 3. Flowers in frames: Directionality in the field
• Part II. Looking far to see near: Windows into ourselves
• Chapter 4. Landscapes: The feeling of awe
• Chapter 5. Iconic fields: Plurifunctionality of the image
• Chapter 6. Architectural forms: Silent guidance for human feeling
• Part III. Embodiment of affective fields
• Chapter 7. Schematization and pleromatization
• Chapter 8. Beyond the fall: The psyche on the body
• Chapter 9. A glimpse into the interior of the psyche
• Chapter 10. General conclusions: Affective forms in human lives
• References
• About the author.