Forms of life : aesthetics and biopolitics in German culture / Andreas Gailus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gailus, Andreas, author.

Series:

Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Signale. Modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Philosophy, German.

Vitalism in literature.

German literature--Themes, motives.

German literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 383 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2021.

Summary:

Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. He insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms. 'Forms of Life' develops such a notion through the meticulous study of works by Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil, and others. Gailus shows that the modern conception of 'life' as a generative, organizing force internal to living beings emerged in the last decades of the eighteenth century in biological thought.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. Life as Formation

Part II. The Conflict of Forms

Part III. Deformation

Epilogue

Index

Notes:

A Signale book.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9781501749810

1501749811

9781501749964

150174996X

OCLC:

1198931149