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Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning

Author : Kathleen Marie Higgins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226831051
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning written by Kathleen Marie Higgins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins reflects on the ways that aesthetics aids people experiencing loss. Some practices related to bereavement, such as funerals, are scripted, but many others are recursive, improvisational, mundane—telling stories, listening to music, and reflecting on art or literature. Higgins shows how these grounding, aesthetic practices can ease the disorienting effects of loss, shedding new light on the importance of aesthetics for personal and communal flourishing.

Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning

Author : Kathleen Marie Higgins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226831043
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning written by Kathleen Marie Higgins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A philosophical exploration of the value of aesthetics in loss and grieving. Loss and grief are destabilizing forces. As a bereaved person grapples with the reality that their loved one is gone and feels only shakily connected to the surrounding world, the tangibility of sensory objects can be grounding. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins highlights the role of aesthetics in the grieving process, offering a guide for how being attuned to aesthetics can aid those experiencing loss. While some activities associated with loss-such as participation in funerals-are culturally scripted, many others are relatively everyday, including attending to sensory objects, telling stories, reflecting on artworks, experiencing music, and engaging in creative projects. Higgins shows how attending to these aesthetic practices helps those who have experienced loss, and she also sheds light on the importance of aesthetic engagement with the world for individual and community flourishing"--

The Crafting of Grief

Author : Lorraine Hedtke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317416236
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Crafting of Grief written by Lorraine Hedtke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books on grief lay out a model to be followed, either for bereaved persons to live through or for professionals to practice, and usually follow some familiar prescriptions for what people should do to reach an accommodation with loss. The Crafting of Grief is different: it focuses on conversations that help people chart their own path through grief. Authors Hedtke and Winslade argue convincingly that therapists and counselors can support people more by helping them craft their own responses to bereavement rather than trying to squeeze experiences into a model. In the pages of this book, readers will learn how to develop lines of inquiry based on the concept of continuing bonds, and they’ll discover ways to use these ideas to help the bereaved craft stories that remember loved ones’ lives.

Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness

Author : Angela Moorjani
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312068271
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness written by Angela Moorjani and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text probes the psychic and social roots of artistic scenarios of loss. Demonstrating that artistic activity is inextricably bonded to imaginary scripts of bereavement and these in turn to patterns of social dominance, the author argues in favor of an "aesthetics of lessness" that is, postmodern resistance to imaginary inscriptions of grief and their misogynist sequels. The book draws on psychoaesthetics, discourse theory and feminist social critiques to analyse literary visual figurations of loss. Included in its analysis of the romantic and post-romantic imaginary are readings of Merimee, Nerval, Hoffmann, H.D., Anne Hebert, Proust and Beckett, and essays, among others, on Kollwitz, Glacometti, Bellmer, Klee, Gidal and Oulton.

Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness

Author : Angela Moorjani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349218138
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness written by Angela Moorjani and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-01-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atmosphere and Aesthetics

Author : Tonino Griffero
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030249425
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Atmosphere and Aesthetics written by Tonino Griffero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a presentation of the concept of “atmosphere” in the realm of aesthetics. An “atmosphere” is meant to be an emotional space. Such idea of “atmosphere” has been more and more subsumed by human and social sciences in the last twenty years, thereby becoming a technical notion. In many fields of the Humanities, affective life has been reassessed as a proper tool to understand the human being, and is now considered crucial. In this context, the link between atmospheres and aesthetics becomes decisive. Nowadays, aesthetics is no longer only a theory of art, but has recovered its original vocation: to be a general theory of perception conceived of as an ordinary experience of pre-logical character. In its four parts (Atmospheric turn?, Senses and Spaces, Subjects and Communities, Aesthetics and Art Theory), this volume discusses whether atmospheres could take the prominent and paradigmatic position previously held by art in order to make sense of such sensible experience of the world.

Grief

Author : Michael Cholbi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232733
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Grief written by Michael Cholbi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief—and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us—as universal as it is painful—is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve, and how grief can ultimately lead us to a richer self-understanding and a fuller realization of our humanity. Drawing on psychology, social science, and literature as well as philosophy, Cholbi explains that we grieve for the loss of those in whom our identities are invested, including people we don't know personally but cherish anyway, such as public figures. Their deaths not only deprive us of worthwhile experiences; they also disrupt our commitments and values. Yet grief is something we should embrace rather than avoid, an important part of a good and meaningful life. The key to understanding this paradox, Cholbi says, is that grief offers us a unique and powerful opportunity to grow in self-knowledge by fashioning a new identity. Although grief can be tumultuous and disorienting, it also reflects our distinctly human capacity to rationally adapt as the relationships we depend on evolve. An original account of how grieving works and why it is so important, Grief shows how the pain of this experience gives us a chance to deepen our relationships with others and ourselves.

Over her dead body

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125633
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Over her dead body written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs.

Death within the Text

Author : Adriana Teodorescu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527531228
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Death within the Text written by Adriana Teodorescu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tackles the challenging theme of death as seen through the lens of literature and its connections with history, the visual arts, anthropology, philosophy and other fields in humanities. It searches for answers to three questions: what can we know about death; how is death socialised; and how and for which purposes is death aesthetically shaped? Unlike many other publications, the volume does not endorse the fallacy of over-simplifying death by seeing it either in an exclusively positive light or by reducing it to a purely literary figure. Using literature’s potential to stimulate critical thinking, many contemporary stereotypical configurations of death and dying are debunked, and many hitherto unforeseen ways in which death functions as a complex trigger of meaning-making are revealed. The book proves that death is an inexhaustible source of meanings which should be understood as peremptorily plural, discontinuous, problematic, competitive, and often conflictual. It offers original contributions to the field of death studies and also to literary and cultural studies.

The Aesthetics of Loss

Author : Claudia Siebrecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199656681
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Loss written by Claudia Siebrecht and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of German women's art produced during the First World War that places the artists' visual responses within the civilian war experience. Traces the thematic evolution of women's art from visual expressions of support for the national war effort to more nuanced and distraught representations of grief over wartime death.

The Living Death of Antiquity

Author : William Fitzgerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192646222
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Living Death of Antiquity written by William Fitzgerald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in different media and periods, focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the aftermath of Winckelmann's writing, John Flaxman's engraved scenes from the Iliad and the sculptors Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen reinterpreted ancient prototypes or invented new ones. Earlier and later versions of this aesthetic in the ancient Greek Anacreontea, the French Parnassian poets and Erik Satie's Socrate, manifest its character in different media and periods. Looking with a sympathetic eye on the original aspirations of the neoclassical aesthetic and its forward-looking potential, Fitzgerald describes how it can tip over into the vacancy or kitsch through which a 'remaindered' antiquity lingers in our minds and environments. This book asks how the neoclassical value of simplicity serves to conjure up an epiphanic antiquity, and how whiteness, in both its literal and its metaphorical forms, acts as the 'logo' of neoclassical antiquity, and functions aesthetically in a variety of media. In the context of the waning of a neoclassically idealized antiquity, Fitzgerald describes the new contents produced by its asymptotic approach to meaninglessness, and how the antiquity that it imagined both is and is not with us.

The Aesthetics of Loss

Author : Claudia Siebrecht
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191630675
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Loss written by Claudia Siebrecht and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetics of Loss is a cultural history of German women's art of the First World War that locates the artists' rich visual testimony in the context of the civilian experience of war and wartime loss. Drawing on a fascinating body of visual sources produced throughout the war years, Claudia Siebrecht examines the thematic evolution of women's art from expressions of support for the war effort to more nuanced and ambivalent testimonies of loss and grief. Many of the images are stark woodcuts, linocuts, and lithographs of great iconographical power that acted as narrative tools to deal with the novel, unsettling, and often traumatic experience of war. German female artists developed a unique aesthetic response to the conflict that both expressed emotional distress and allowed them to re-imagine the place of mourning women in wartime society. Historical codes of wartime behaviour and traditional rites of public mourning led female artists to redefine cultural practices of bereavement, question existing notions of heroic death and proud bereavement through art, and to place grief at the centre of women's war experiences. As a cultural, aesthetic, and thematic point of reference, German women's art of the First World War has had a fundamental influence on the European memory and understanding of modern war.

Representations of Death

Author : Mary Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134748760
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Death written by Mary Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PUBLICITY TITLE First book to take the reader through medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death. Illustrated with original and professional photography. Draws on conversations with staff in hospitals, registry offices, funeral parlours and cemeteries.

The Aesthetic Experience of Dying

Author : Veronica M. F. Adamson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351797158
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetic Experience of Dying written by Veronica M. F. Adamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of the author’s partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery. Drawing on German Idealism and Jane’s own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of Dying looks at the notion of life as a binary synthesis, or a return enhanced, as a way of coming to understand death. Binary synthesis describes the interplay between dynamically opposing pairs of concepts – such as life and death – resulting in an enhanced version of one of them to move forward in a new cycle of the process. Yet what relevance does this elegant word game have to the shocking diagnosis of serious illness? Struggling to balance reason with sense, thought with feeling, this book examines the experience of caring for someone from diagnosis to death and is illustrated with examples of the return enhanced. The concluding chapter outlines how the tension of Jane’s dying has been resolved as the rhythmic patterns of the lifeworld have been understood through the process of reflecting on the experience. This creative and insightful book will appeal to those interested in the medical humanities. It will also be an important reference for practising and student health professionals.

Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics

Author : S. Brent Plate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135879567
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics written by S. Brent Plate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Constructing what he calls an "allegorical aesthetics," Plate sifts through Benjamin's writings showing how his concepts of art, allegory, and experience undo traditionally stabilizing religious concepts such as myth, symbol, memory, narrative, creation, and redemption.

The Aesthetics of Degradation

Author : Adrian Nathan West
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910924199
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Degradation written by Adrian Nathan West and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and outrage. But what are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse? In this studied and ruthless examination of the place of pornography in contemporary life, translator and critic Adrian Nathan West treads dangerous literary and social ground, transcending cliches about free expression and the demands of the market to look at the moral discomfort of violent pornography from the perspective of the viewer. Collapsing distinctions between novel, memoir, and essay, this book will not make for light reading. But at its core is an extraordinarily brave and honest concern for the women and men who have been hurt in the name of sexual gratification.

Arranging Grief

Author : Dana Luciano
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814752330
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Arranging Grief written by Dana Luciano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation’s standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth-century appeals to grief, as Luciano demonstrates, diffused modes of “sacred time” across both religious and ostensibly secular frameworks, at once authorizing and unsettling established schemes of connection to the past and the future. Examining mourning manuals, sermons, memorial tracts, poetry, and fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Luciano illustrates the ways that grief coupled the affective body to time. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian, and psychoanalytic criticism, Arranging Grief shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.