Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death - Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism (Hardcover)

Walter Pater, best known as the author of The Renaissance (1873) and as Oscar Wilde s 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 Drawing on Pater s unpublished manuscripts, Giles Whiteley challenges this view of Pater as a closeted don who spent the remainder of his life regretting the excesses of his Renaissance. Focusing on Pater s reading of the German idealist philosopher, G. W. F. Hegel, Whiteley argues that Pater s 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 Pater s 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.

General

Imprint:	Legenda
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Giles Whitely
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-1-906540-64-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN:	1-906540-64-0
Barcode:	9781906540647

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