The Fifth Dimension

The Fifth Dimension is the result of a course on aesthetics and neuroaesthetics created and directed by the architect, composer, artist and philosopher Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in the years of 1997 and 1998 at the Childhood Education Institute of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, Portugal. They are thirty books in fourteen volumes. This volume, after having passed in the previous volumes by vision, hearing, taste and olfactory senses, the latter two written in their plural, we now penetrate the tactile and proprioceptive spheres. Then, immediately, we launched ourselves into the universes of Charles Sanders Peirce, Maurits Cornelis Escher and Moses ben Maimon, Maimonides. Each volume is a different field in this formidable universe that is the Fifth Dimension. The set of books that make up this project deals with the metamorphosis of the human thought, over thousands of years, going through culinary, the universe of perfumes, of the music, of ideas and the history of art.