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 m…
The Cognition of Life and the Life of Cognition (Kant) -- Metamorphoses of Form (Goethe) -- Enter the Hybrid (Kleist) -- Life as Will (Nietzsche) -- Brains (Benn) -- The Infinite Specificity of Life (Musil). "Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Fr…
"Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil and others into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of vitalism and biopolitics"--
"Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil and others into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of vitalism and biopolitics"
"Passions of the Sign traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. Andreas Gailus exam…