Life Drawing A Deleuzean Aesthetics of Existence 1st Edition by Gordon C F Bearn ISBN 0823250717 9780823250714

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ISBN 10: 0823250717

ISBN 13: 9780823250714 

Author: Gordon C. F. Bearn

Deleuze’s publications have attracted enormous attention, but scant attention has been paid to the existential relevance of Deleuze’s writings. In the lineage of Nietzsche, Life Drawing develops a fully affirmative Deleuzean aesthetics of existence.For Foucault and Nehamas, the challenge of an aesthetics of existence is to make your life, in one way or another, a work of art. In contrast, Bearn argues that art is too narrow a concept to guide this kind of existential project. He turns instead to the more generous notion of beauty, but he argues that the philosophical tradition has mostly misconceived beauty in terms of perfection. Heraclitus and Kant are well-known exceptions to this mistake, and Bearn suggests that because Heraclitean becoming is beyond conceptual characterization, it promises a sensualized experience akin to what Kant called free beauty. In this new aesthetics of existence, the challengeis to become beautiful by releasing a Deleuzean becoming: becoming becoming. Bearn’s readings of philosophical texts–by Wittgenstein, Derrida, Plato, and others–will be of interest in their own right.

Table of contents:

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

Quite A Crowd

Overture

One: Yes and No

Two: Learning to Swim

Three: Andante Vivace

Four: Again and Again

Five: Keep Everything in Sight at the Same Time

Six: Desire without Desires

Seven: Becoming Becoming

Eight: Refusing Beauty; or, The Bruise

Nine: An Ethics of Affection

Cadenza

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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