Démuth, Andrej (ed.): Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions
Peter Lang, 2024
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https://doi.org/10.46282/blr.2025.9.2.1211Keywords:
Aesthetic Emotions, Moral Emotions, Book Review, Evolutionary Aspects , Cognitive Aspects , Semantic AspectsAbstract
The collective of authors - Démuthová, Kišoňová, Démuth, Batka, and Meteňkanyč - has produced a stimulating monograph that explores selected aspects of aesthetic and moral emotions. The authors examine these emotions primarily from cognitive, semantic, and evolutionary perspectives, analysing, for example, their dictionary definitions, antonyms and synonyms, as well as their evolutionary and neurobiological underpinnings. The monograph aims to advance research on aesthetic and moral emotions by addressing themes such as beauty, admiration, disgust, anger, guilt, and (in)justice. A unifying feature of the work is its attempt to develop an integrated concept that accounts for both the subjective experience of emotions and their objective understanding, highlighting important connections and similarities among individual aesthetic and moral emotions. From these perspectives, this book offers a valuable source of inspiration for future legal research, as it ventures into interdisciplinary perspectives that are not typically considered in standard legal scholarship.
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Batka, Ľ. (2024). Guilt: Persons in Web of Guilt. Guilt in Net of Interpretations. In: Démuth, A. (ed.), Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions (pp. 127-166). Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH.
Démuth, A. (2024a). Anger: The Awareness of Evil and the Defiant Decision to Take Justice into One’s Own Hands. In: Démuth, A. (ed.), Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions (pp. 95-126). Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH.
Démuth, A. (2024b). Outline of a Possible Mapping of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions: Summary or Conclusion? In: Démuth, A. (ed.), Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions (pp. 207-219). Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH.
Démuthová, S. (2024). Beauty: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Perspectives. In: Démuth, A. (ed.), Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions (pp. 15-64). Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b22295
Kišoňová, R. (2024). Admiration and Disgust: Social and Moral Emotions of Admiration and Disgust. In: Démuth, A. (ed.), Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions (pp. 65-94). Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH.
Meteňkanyč, O. M. (2024). (In)justice: On the Indeterminacy of the Concept of (In)justice. In: Démuth, A. (ed.), Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions (pp. 167-206). Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH.
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