Cargando…
Life drawing : a Deleuzean aesthetics of existence /
Gilles Deleuze's publications have attracted enormous interest, but scant attention has been paid to the existential relevance of his writings. In the lineage of Friedrich Nietzsche, this book develops a fully affirmative Deleuzean aesthetics of existence. For Michel Foucault and Alexander Neha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013
|
| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Gilles Deleuze's publications have attracted enormous interest, but scant attention has been paid to the existential relevance of his writings. In the lineage of Friedrich Nietzsche, this book develops a fully affirmative Deleuzean aesthetics of existence. For Michel Foucault and Alexander Nehamas, the challenge of an aesthetics of existence is to make your life, in one way or another, a work of art. In contrast, the book argues that art is too narrow a concept to guide this kind of existential project. It turns instead to the more generous notion of beauty, but argues that the philosophical tradition has mostly misconceived beauty in terms of perfection. Heraclitus and Kant are well-known exceptions to this mistake, and the author suggests that because Heraclitean becoming is beyond conceptual characterization, it promises a sensualized experience akin to what Kant called free beauty. In this new aesthetics of existence, the challenge is to become beautiful by releasing a Deleuzean becoming: becoming becoming. The author's readings of philosophical texts - by Wittgenstein, Derrida, Plato, and others - are of interest in their own right. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 342 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823250714 0823250717 9780823250394 0823250393 |