Affirmation—Another Name for the Art of Life

• Authors: Dastooreh Kaveh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Our purpose in this paper is to argue how the idea of affirmation of life embodies the practice of the art of life. The yes-saying attitude towards life can provide an enormous support for the self-formation practices. Our attempt, then, consists of demonstrating the subjective character of the aesthetic marked by pleasure, and especially a new approach to the relationship between “I” and the other. We comprehend that this sort of life is individually relative or subjective. Meanwhile, there is a political reconfiguration of “I” and the other which ends in freedom. Politics becomes possible in a simultaneous caring for I and the other through the practices of self-constitution. In order to clarify our discussion further, this challenge is accompanied by a presentation of three real lives that are exemplary for us in the art of life; a way of being that stands for a political affirmation of life.

Keywords

EN

Affirmation; aesthetics of life; freedom; political; multiple; life

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 65-79

Contributors

author

Dastooreh Kaveh

• Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, University of Sulemani, Sulemani, Kurdistan-Iraq.