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

ISBN-13: 9780367602055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Giles Whitely

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Giles Whitely