Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning

Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss

Kathleen Marie Higgins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83104-6 (ISBN)

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A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement.

In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins reflects on the ways that aesthetics aids people experiencing loss. Some practices related to bereavement, such as funerals, are scripted, but many others are recursive, improvisational, mundane—telling stories, listening to music, and reflecting on art or literature. Higgins shows how these grounding, aesthetic practices can ease the disorienting effects of loss, shedding new light on the importance of aesthetics for personal and communal flourishing.

Kathleen Marie Higgins is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books including The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

1. Aesthetics in Contexts of Loss—a Few Preliminaries
2. Aesthetic Proliferation
3. Grief and the Phenomenology of Bereavement
4. Aesthetic Resources for Orientation and Reassurance
5. Aesthetic Modes of Reconnecting
6. Artworks as Communicative Resources
7. Dealing with the Dead
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-83104-3 / 0226831043
ISBN-13	978-0-226-83104-6 / 9780226831046
Zustand	Neuware