Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism

by Giles Whitely

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367602055
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Giles Whitely

Table of Contents

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