死別と喪をささえる美学 Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning : Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss

Higgins, Kathleen Marie

University of Chicago Press（2024/03発売）

University of Chicago Press（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780226831046
• DDC分類 155.937

Full Description

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.

Contents

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