Life as Art : Aesthetics and the Creation of Self

Simpson, Zachary

ABC-CLIO（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 310 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798216394440
• DDC分類 111.85

Full Description

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.

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