Life as art : aesthetics and the creation of self / Zachary Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Zachary, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life as Art synthesizes a number of aesthetic theories in philosophy after 1850 and shows the ways in which they contribute to a unified field of analysis and potential implementation. The book is framed both as a secondary text, analyzing 19th and 20th Century aesthetics, and a primary argument for the viability of life as art as a unified philosophical position.

Contents:

LIFE AS ART; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I Introducing Life as Art; 1 The Path Ahead; 2 Dandyism and Life is Art; 3 Nietzsche's Ideal Types; Part II Resistance; 4 Theodor Adorno on Negative Thinking and Utopia; 5 Herbert Marcuse and the Artful Individual; Part III Affirmation; 6 Martin Heidegger and Poetic Thinking; 7 Merleau-Ponty and Marion on the Thought of Being; Part IV Creation; 8 Albert Camus on the Life Artist; 9 Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence; 10 Life as Art; Further Suggested Reading; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-283-94043-4

0-7391-7931-4

OCLC:

845249572