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@article{ART002047520},
author={Joosik Min},
title={M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2015},
volume={45},
pages={71-104},
doi={10.17527/JASA.45.0.03}

TY - JOUR
AU - Joosik Min
TI - M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2015
VL - 45
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 71
EP - 104
SN - 1229-0246
AB - Michel Foucault has developed his theory of subject in terms of ‘aesthetics of existence’, which is correlated with ‘bio politics’, in the decline of his life. The aesthetics of existence simply means the standpoint that regards one's life as a work of art. Accordingly, it is to apply one's aesthetic judgement to one' own life or way of life. and to decide one's behaviour not by compulsion of other but by his own free preference. His last work was to establish the genealogy of ethics which could manipulate the various activities in ancient Greece. The substantial purpose of Greek ethics was belong to aesthetic dimension. Inferring from the expression “to regard one's life as a work of art”, we can recognize the emerging subject generating between the ethic and the aesthetic. Such mode of life proceed to transform of oneself toward self-poesis. However, it entails great changes through confronting with large world, not remaining in individual practice. This change should practised further in the general form of the world beyond the distinction between oneself and others, The moment of truth is needed in this change in order to strive the transformation of life. Here, we can recognize the aesthetic practice that is performed with the relationship between life and truth. Foucault argued in his theory of subject that art is the expression of the deep linkage of truth with life. The word of ‘parrésia’ for him means primarily ‘to tell the truth’. We can consider art as a certain parrésia in broader sense, because of its function to configurate the linkage between truth and life, We can set the aesthetics of life from the relating circumstances of various lives that are performed in art as parrésia. Art could be the power to change our present actuality by the presence of truth.
KW - aesthetics of existence;self consideration;transformation of life;life and truth;Michel Foucault
DO - 10.17527/JASA.45.0.03
ER -

Joosik Min. (2015). M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 45, 71-104.

Joosik Min. 2015, "M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.45, pp.71-104. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.45.0.03

Joosik Min "M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 45 pp.71-104 (2015) : 71.

Joosik Min. M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life. 2015; 45 71-104. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.45.0.03

Joosik Min. "M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 45(2015) : 71-104.doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.03

Joosik Min. M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 45, 71-104. doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.03

Joosik Min. M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2015; 45 71-104. doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.03

Joosik Min. M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life. 2015; 45 71-104. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.45.0.03

Joosik Min. "M. Foucault's ‘Aesthetics of Life’ in terms of Self Consideration and Transformation of Life" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 45(2015) : 71-104.doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.03