Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning

Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-06
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226831046

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"As embodied beings, we reconnect to the world and others in the process of mourning mainly by aesthetic means, by touching, hearing, seeing, smelling, moving around, and being corporeally affected by things, instead of merely contemplating loss in our solitary minds. Higgins's book makes a great contribution to the philosophical literature on grief by meticulously exploring this aesthetic mode of human situationality as it is embodied in loss and grief."