Démuth, Andrej (ed.): Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions. Peter Lang, 2024
Démuth, Andrej (ed.): Cognitive, Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions. Peter Lang, 2024

Summary/Abstract: Review of: Démuth, Andrej et al. Cognitive, semantic, and evolutionary aspects of aesthetic and moral emotions. Berlin: Peter Lang, [2024]. 224 pages. Spectrum Slovakia series, volume 48. ISBN 978-3-631-92569-0. 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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