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.
| ISBN: | 9780226831046 |
| Publication date: | 9th April 2024 |
| Author: | Kathleen Marie Higgins |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Sociology: death and dying |