Death Aesthetics: The Journey of Life Series

Author: Lu Yang
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: How can humans transcend the fear and dilemma of death with their free spirit? How can we make our brief lives, like shooting stars, shine brilliantly? The aesthetic value of death is fundamentally rooted in how humans overcome the fear and confusion of death with their free spirit. This book takes the aesthetic perspective of death as its starting point, exploring the concepts of life and death in Chinese and Western cultures, as well as the aesthetic relationships between death and sublimity, tragedy, religion, and the world of souls and ghosts, while analyzing modern consciousness of death and various suicide phenomena.