The Aesthetics of Emotion : Up the Down Staircase of the Mind-Body (Paperback)

Prologue; 1. Experiences in life and art; 2. Thinking critically about emotion theories; 3. The depth of affective processing; 4. Emotional experiences as reactions; 5. Antecedents of the motivational action models; 6. Emotional phase theory; 7. Neural underpinnings of emotional experiences and feeling-based actions; 8. The aesthetic imagination; 9. Affective processes and aesthetic reception; 10. The 'aesthetics of emotion' as analogy and metaphor; 11. Creative practices of contemporary artists; 12. The cave artist's share; 13. Studies in aesthetic reception; 14. In search of a unified emotion theory; Epilogue.