Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self
Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of meaning, liberation, and creativity into one’s daily life. By linking together the aesthetic and ethical accounts of critical theorists, phenomenologists, and existentialists into a coherent view on the artful life, Life as Art shows the ways in which much of contemporary Continental theory has been concerned with alternative ways of constructing one’s own life. Seen as a unified phenomenon, life as art signifies an active attempt to create a life which bears the resistance, openness, and creativity found in artworks.
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Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self
Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of meaning, liberation, and creativity into one’s daily life. By linking together the aesthetic and ethical accounts of critical theorists, phenomenologists, and existentialists into a coherent view on the artful life, Life as Art shows the ways in which much of contemporary Continental theory has been concerned with alternative ways of constructing one’s own life. Seen as a unified phenomenon, life as art signifies an active attempt to create a life which bears the resistance, openness, and creativity found in artworks.
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Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self

Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self

by Zachary Simpson
Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self

Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self

by Zachary Simpson

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Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of meaning, liberation, and creativity into one’s daily life. By linking together the aesthetic and ethical accounts of critical theorists, phenomenologists, and existentialists into a coherent view on the artful life, Life as Art shows the ways in which much of contemporary Continental theory has been concerned with alternative ways of constructing one’s own life. Seen as a unified phenomenon, life as art signifies an active attempt to create a life which bears the resistance, openness, and creativity found in artworks.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739168707
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/27/2012
Pages: 310
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Zachary Simpson has a B.A. in biology from Colorado College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy of religion from Claremont Graduate University. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University in the Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Zachary has worked in an editorial capacity on seven different volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (associate editor; Oxford University Press, 2006) and Adventures in the Spirit: New Forays in Philosophical Theology (Fortress Press, 2008). He has published articles related to phenomenology, deconstruction, and science and religion.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introducing Life as Art
Chapter 1: The Path Ahead
Chapter 2: Dandyism and Life is Art
Chapter 3: Nietzsche’s Ideal Types
Part II: Resistant
Chapter 4: Theodor Adorno on Negative Thinking and Utopia
Chapter 5: Herbert Marcuse and the Artful Individual
Part III: Affirmation
Chapter 6: Martin Heidegger and Poetic Thinking
Chapter 7: Merleau-Ponty and Marion on the Thought of Being
Part IV: Creation
Chapter 8: Albert Camus on the Life Artist
Chapter 9: Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Life as Art
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