Description: Further DetailsTitle: Forms of LifeCondition: NewSubtitle: Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German CultureISBN-10: 1501749811EAN: 9781501749810ISBN: 9781501749810Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell University LibraryFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/15/2020Description: In Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. He insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms. Forms of Life develops such a notion through the meticulous study of works by Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil, and others. Gailus shows that the modern conception of "life" as a generative, organizing force internal to living beings emerged in the last decades of the eighteenth century in biological thought. At the core of this vitalist strand of thought, Gailus maintains, lies a persistent emphasis on the dynamics of formation and deformation, and thus on an intrinsically aesthetic dimension of life. Forms of Life brings this older discourse into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of biopolitics and vitalism, while also developing a rich conception of life that highlights, rather than suppresses, its protean character. Gailus demonstrates that life unfolds in the open-ended interweaving of the myriad forms and modalities of biological, ethical, political, psychical, aesthetic, and biographical systems.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Andreas GailusGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and ThoughtTopic: Literary CriticismItem Width: 27mmItem Weight: 907gRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Forms of Life
Title: Forms of Life
Subtitle: Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture
ISBN-10: 1501749811
EAN: 9781501749810
ISBN: 9781501749810
Release Date: 09/15/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Book Title: Forms of Life : Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: History & Surveys / General, Philosophy & Social Aspects, European / German, Aesthetics
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Science
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Andreas Gailus
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
