Supplementing Herder's Naturalism: Expanding the Senses and Transcending Cultures.

The author examines the two kinds of naturalist expansions to the aesthetics of philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder explicated by author Rachel Zuckert. He explores the core of Herder's account of sensory beauty, his proposal of attending to the computational outputs that is designed to achieve by vision, Herder's account of the artistic value of great artworks across cultures, his argument for the existence of transcendent works, and the similarities between Herder and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson in terms of their work.