Natural Classicism: Essays on Literature and Science

Abstract

This book presents Turner's exploration of - and attempt to integrate - principles of literature, art, music, biology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics and aesthetics. It is Turner's contention that a non-reductive reconciliation of disciplines is possible, and he proposes a new chain of being that is evolutionary and dynamic, and both proved and empowered by achievements of great detour West took through materialistic empiricism. In six essays that comprise this volume, Turner examines such diverse subjects as relationship of performance and literature, biochemical underpinnings of human motivation, Thoreau and birth of American anthropology, and neurophysiology of poetic meter. He probes right brain/left brain dichotomy and theorizes about the neurochemistry of aesthetic delight. He also predicts nature of successor movement to modernism and post-modernism.

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