Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death Walter Pater and Post Hegelianism 1st Edition by Giles Whiteley ISBN 1351193775 9781351193771

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ISBN 10: 1351193775

ISBN 13: 9781351193771

Author:  Giles Whiteley 

Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism 1st Edition: “Walter Pater, best known as the author of The Renaissance (1873) and as Oscar Wildes tutor and friend, was a leading figure in European aestheticism and British fin-de-siecle culture. Despite this, he has received only limited critical attention, and has tended to be read conservatively. Drawing on Paters unpublished manuscripts, Giles Whiteley challenges this view of Pater as a closeted don who spend the remainder of his life regretting the excesses of his Renaissance. Focusing on Paters reading of the German idealist philosopher, G. W. F. Hegel, Whiteley argues that Paters response to both the philosophical and the ideological legacies of idealism was significantly more advanced than has been hitherto thought. Presenting a persuasive new reading of the genre of the imaginary portrait Paters most elusive form of writing the book paints a picture of Walter Pater as a truly revolutionary thinker. Pater, like Nietzsche during the same period, breaks with the dialectic as a method. Anticipating the radical critiques of ideology of post- Hegelians such as Derrida and Deleuze, Pater becomes a radical and transgressive thinker in his own right.”

 

Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction

• Pater’s reading and rereading of Hegel
• Reading and rereading Hegel: ‘Reconsideration’ and ressentiment
• Rereading the rereading: Hegel’s ‘radical dualism’ and the philosophy of death
• Rereading the readings of Pater: Christianity and the Oedipus complex
• Pater’s post-Hegelianism and the question of method

Chapter 1: The Hegelian Structure of Pater’s ‘Reconsidered’ Aestheticism

• Idealism and subject–object identity
• Phenomenology
• The sensible appearance of the idea and the death of art
• The unpublished manuscript on moral philosophy
• Pater’s sittlich aestheticism and Francis Herbert Bradley’s Ethical Studies
• Mutual recognition and the greater reason
• The structure of Pater’s aestheticism
• Aestheticism and semiology
• Pater’s architectural analogy and aesthetic structuralism
• Aestheticism as the death of art

Chapter 2: The Philosophy of (the Impossibility of) Death

• The life of spirit and the philosophy of death
• Sacrifice and the master–slave dialectic
• Hegel’s speculation
• Subjective immortality and the ‘dialectical overcoming’ of death
• Absolute negativity and abstract negativity
• Hegel’s ‘radical dualism’
• Pater against the dialectic
• The moment and instant of death

Chapter 3: The Imaginary Portraits

• Pater, Emerson, Nietzsche
• The genre of the imaginary portrait
• The Child in the House: Homeliness, nostalgia, and the Hegelian pyramid
• A Prince of Court Painters: The idea against life
• Sebastian van Storck: Schopenhauer as the truth of Hegel
• Denys L’Auxerrois: The Dionysian as the affirmation of difference
• Duke Carl of Rosenmold: The restricted economy and the culture of death
• The imaginary portraits and the genealogy

Chapter 4: Autobiography and the Writing of Death

• Hegelian autobiography and literary immortality
• Pater and Benjamin on the task of the translator
• The limits of autobiography and the Hegelian subject
• Autobiography as thanatography
• Aborted narratives
• Emerald Uthwart: The instant of death
• Apollo in Picardy: Madness and the failure of Hegelian semiology
• The history of writing deconstructively

Conclusion: The Ideology of Aestheticism

• Hegelianism and ideology
• The new aestheticism
• Aestheticism and fascism
• The diaphaneitè and difference

 

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