Aesthetic Experience of Dying

Taylor & Francis

The Aesthetic Experience of DyingThe Dance to Death\nAuthor(s): Veronica M. F. Adamson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138635241, 978-1138635241\nSynopsis\nStructured around a personal account of the illness and death of the authors partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery. \n\nDrawing on German Idealism and Janes own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of Dying looks at the notion of life as a binary synthesis, or a return enhanced, as a way of coming to understand death. Binary synthesis describes the interplay between dynamically opposing pairs of concepts such as life and death resulting in an enhanced version of one of them to move forward in a new cycle of the process. Yet what relevance does this elegant word game have to the shocking diagnosis of serious illness? Struggling to balance reason with sense, thought with .