Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death

Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism

Giles Whitely (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2010
Legenda (Verlag)
978-1-906540-64-7 (ISBN)

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By contextualizing Walter Pater's aestheticism alongside Alexandre Kojeve's and Georges Bataille's readings of Hegelianism, this book shows that Pater's aestheticism constitutes both a philosophy of death and at the same time a philosophy of the impossibility of death.

Giles Whitely

Introduction: Pater's Reading and Rereading of Hegel 1. The Hegelian Structure of Pater's 'Reconsidered' Aestheticism 2. The Philosophy of (the Impossibility of) Death 3. The Imaginary Portraits 4. Autobiography and the Writing of Death 5. Conclusion: The Ideology of Aestheticism

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2010
Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-906540-64-0 / 1906540640
ISBN-13	978-1-906540-64-7 / 9781906540647
Zustand	Neuware