Philosophy and Religion, Philosophy, Topics in Philosophy, Aesthetics
Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death

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

Paperback Published on: 30/06/2020
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Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 9780367602055
  • Number of pages: 188
  • Dimensions: 246 x 174 x 13 mm
  • Weight: 350g
  • Languages: English