Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)

Abstract

The essay focuses on the Italian evolutionist Tito Vignoli, whose work is the result of a fruitful contamination between philosophy, history of religion, linguistics, ethnography, anthropology, psychology, zoology and physiology. His most regarded book, Mito e scienza (1879), and some of his minor writings deal with the theory of myth, art and aesthetics in the new framework of Darwin's ideas.

Keywords

• evolutionary aesthetics
• Tito Vignoli
• myth
• theory of evolution
• darwinism