1st Edition
Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism
By Giles Whitely
Copyright 2010
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
Giles Whitely
