Bianchi, Enea <br/><br/>
The Philosophy of Mario Perniola: From Aesthetics to Dandyism 

 - London  Bloomsbury Academic  2022 
 - 251p 
<br/><br/>Part 1,<br/>The suicide of literature,<br/>Perniola`s youthful manifesto: towards a strong feeling ,<br/>The Metanovel,<br/>The Dogma of spontaneity: social media, and the culmination of the Romantic project,<br/>Perniola`s storiette, or, literature after death,<br/>To love or smash images? The dimension of the Simulacrum ,<br/>The Roman Aesthetics of simulacre,<br/>Guy debord and fake news,<br/>The Jesuit- Barque tradition and the internet of things,<br/>Action at he end of action: Rituals without Myths,<br/>Against the anti-ritual tradition,<br/>Perniola`s expanded epoche,<br/>The ritual in ancient Roman religion,<br/>The difference of the Catholic feeling,<br/>Perniola versus Heidegger and weak thought,<br/>George Bryan Brummell: the ritual clothing,<br/>Brummell`s assault on fashion,<br/>Sprezzatura, je ne sais quoi subtlety,<br/>Neither aristocracy nor the bourgeoisie,<br/>Romantic history versus dandy storietta,<br/>Dandyism and the simulacrum of death,<br/>What is it like to be a thing?,<br/>Our relationship with things,<br/>Neutral dimensions, vibrating stones,<br/>Turning oneself into mirror,<br/>Uncanny, radiating and intense things,<br/>A Queering Agency: Perniola`s The sex appeal of the inorganic,<br/>The sexual big bang and the limits of orgasm,<br/>Post-rock, suspended entities, perversions,<br/>The transit or how to endlessly multiply genders and sexes,<br/>Beauty is like a blade: Towards a Strategic Theory of Aesthetics Stoicism or beauty  as action,<br/>Making unlawful matches between things: Baltasar Gracian`s Baroque,<br/>Charles Baudelaire: Greatness without convictions,<br/>To each age its beauty,<br/>Perniola`s aesthetic horizon and Baudelaire`s anti-aesthetics,<br/>Dandies, mirrors, blackness,<br/>Getting rid of nature,<br/>Prt3,<br/>The Artistic alienation and the situationist International,<br/>Art must be killed,<br/>Guy Debord`s dandyism,<br/>A shadow and its art,<br/>Art and  psychosis,<br/>The excessive remainder of the artwork,<br/>Oscar Wilde: the In-Between Dandy,<br/>Recurrent dandy ideas in Oscar Wilde,<br/>The subversion of writing,<br/>Dandyism and queerness,<br/>Mona Lisa vamp,<br/>Conclusion<br/><br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781350281479 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>N95  / B470