La vie comme œuvre d’art ? Actualité de l’esthétique de l’existence chez Foucault
(2021) Nouvelle revue d’esthétique — Vol. 28, n° 2021/2, p. 10 (2021)
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- (en) This article returns to a notion that is both fruitful and controversial in Michel Foucault’s latest works: the aesthetics of existence, or the possibility of developing one’s life as a work of art. Contrary to several criticisms and misunderstandings, the article intends to grasp the meaning and the stakes of this idea while fully acknowledging its aesthetic dimension. By analyzing the conference on The Culture of the Self, the article begins to show the specificity of the aesthetics of existence within Foucault’s broad reflections on the problematizations of the subject. By then comparing Foucault’s texts with one another, we come to identify a double series of propositions that highlight both the profound actuality of the aesthetics of existence and its subversive potential.
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Mees, M. (2021). La vie comme œuvre d’art ? Actualité de l’esthétique de l’existence chez Foucault. Nouvelle revue d’esthétique, 28(2021/2), 10. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/166461 (Original work published 2021)