Bernadette Wegenstein
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262232678
- eISBN:
- 9780262301114
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262232678.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Plato, who coined the term kal ó kagatheia to express the quality of being raised correctly, believed that outer beauty and beauty of the soul go hand in hand. This chapter deals with the dark side ...
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Plato, who coined the term kal ó kagatheia to express the quality of being raised correctly, believed that outer beauty and beauty of the soul go hand in hand. This chapter deals with the dark side of beauty. The author has taken the example of Nadja, the surrealist novel by Andre Breton, to explore the concepts of “other beauty” and “beauty’s hell.” The chapter also explains the dark side of beauty by taking the example of the birthmark. This feeling is so acute that a birthmark on the cheek of a beautiful woman becomes a deformity. Michael Jackson is an example of this dark side of beauty because he used the cosmetic gaze to transcend his ethnicity (from being an African American).Less
Plato, who coined the term kal ó kagatheia to express the quality of being raised correctly, believed that outer beauty and beauty of the soul go hand in hand. This chapter deals with the dark side of beauty. The author has taken the example of Nadja, the surrealist novel by Andre Breton, to explore the concepts of “other beauty” and “beauty’s hell.” The chapter also explains the dark side of beauty by taking the example of the birthmark. This feeling is so acute that a birthmark on the cheek of a beautiful woman becomes a deformity. Michael Jackson is an example of this dark side of beauty because he used the cosmetic gaze to transcend his ethnicity (from being an African American).
Jonathan Strauss
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198715719
- eISBN:
- 9780191783395
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198715719.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
The articulation of poetic vision is one way of giving determinate content to subjectivity; this chapter offers a detailed study of a work of philosophy giving articulate voice to a work of ...
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The articulation of poetic vision is one way of giving determinate content to subjectivity; this chapter offers a detailed study of a work of philosophy giving articulate voice to a work of literature that implicitly shows such a vision. By imagining a dialogue between two key theories of subjectivity from the twentieth century, we see here the ways in which Heidegger’s Being and Time powerfully illuminates ideas of self-identity that André Breton worked out in his surrealist novel, Nadja. Breton’s novel is seen to be in an instructive sense the container of content not wholly captured in philosophy. The chapter concludes that, while one way of gaining clarity about ethical content in literature is to see how philosophy gives that content voice, another is to see how in some cases the ethical content of literature is of a kind that philosophy, without literary language, cannot capture with any reasonable precision.Less
The articulation of poetic vision is one way of giving determinate content to subjectivity; this chapter offers a detailed study of a work of philosophy giving articulate voice to a work of literature that implicitly shows such a vision. By imagining a dialogue between two key theories of subjectivity from the twentieth century, we see here the ways in which Heidegger’s Being and Time powerfully illuminates ideas of self-identity that André Breton worked out in his surrealist novel, Nadja. Breton’s novel is seen to be in an instructive sense the container of content not wholly captured in philosophy. The chapter concludes that, while one way of gaining clarity about ethical content in literature is to see how philosophy gives that content voice, another is to see how in some cases the ethical content of literature is of a kind that philosophy, without literary language, cannot capture with any reasonable precision.
