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- ISBN 9780275942960
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 1993
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Minai develops the idea that an aesthetic value is not necessarily an objective value reasoned by rationality. Beauty is a matter of chance and necessity in the nature of things, a matter of the order of things and the circumstances of their interconnections, or predictable and unpredictable forces. To know such a complex system we need to establish a view of phenomenology and hermeneutics, a world view where bad and good and ugly and beautiful are part of a continuum of changes and differences. In that world view, it is essential to have an understanding of mind, nature, and the epistemology of knowing.
ASGHAR TALAYE MINAI is Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Howard University. He is the author of Architecture as Environmental Communication (1984) and Design as Aesthetic Communication: Structuring Random-Order (1989).
