Alexander Lee's Blog – February 2011 Archive (1)

Aesthetics and Politics: Let's Pick on Foucault Week

Michel Foucault asks in an interview, "Couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?" even though



1) Foucault had already acknowledged that only a select subset of citizens was empowered to actually undertake an aesthetics of existence.



2) Foucault treats the bios as a non-Kantian work of art, emphasizing that because absoluteness and regularity of structure comes a priori with harmony and social ideal -- only "irregularity, dissymmetry and nonreciprocity"…

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Added by Alexander Lee on February 8, 2011 at 10:00am — 5 Comments

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