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Life drawing : a Deleuzean aesthetics of existence / Gordon C. F. Bearn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bearn, Gordon C. F., 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Ontology.
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
- Deleuze, Gilles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Yes and no
- Learning to swim
- Andante vivace
- Again and again
- Keep everything in sight at the same time
- Desire without desires
- Becoming becoming
- Refusing beauty; or, The bruise
- An ethics of affection.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4481-4
- 0-8232-5071-7
- 0-8232-5039-3
- OCLC:
- 847623354
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