Sexual and Aesthetic Reproduction in

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Paul Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Reproduction ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Aesthetic

Malone's narratives are investigated through their relation to Schiller's and Schopenhauer's championing of aesthetic contemplation. Although Beckett follows Schopenhauer in his condemnation of the will-to-live, particularly as represented by procreation, it is argued that the narratives of Malone reveal an inability to create pure, disinterested, aesthetic objects. The paradigms of fictional creation adopted by Malone are infected by modes proper to sexual reproduction and therefore fail to release Malone from time and the will. It is argued that the reproductive motifs within demonstrate Beckett's subtle rejection of the aesthetic optimism of Schopenhauer and Schiller.

“Floating Melodies and Memories” of the Terezín Memorial

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-141
Author(s):  
Chia-ling Lai
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
The Will ◽  
Musical Heritage

As Andrea Huyssen observes, since the 1990s the preservation of Holocaust heritage has become a worldwide phenomenon, and this “difficult heritage” has also led to the rise of “dark tourism.” Neither as sensationally traumatic as Auschwitz’s termination concentration camp in Poland nor as aesthetic as the forms of many modern Jewish museums in Germany and the United States, the Terezín Memorial in the Czech Republic provides a different way to present memorials of atrocity: it juxtaposes the original deadly site with the musical heritage that shows the will to live.

Multicultural Belonging and a Potent Silence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrod J. Suarez
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
The Will ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism ◽  
The Aesthetic

The fourth chapter produces readings of Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son. Bulosan’s novel explores the tensions between the aesthetic and political through the question of gender as well as the reverse—strategies through which the narrator seeks national and transnational belonging. This discussion frames the analysis of American Son, which may be read as a revision of the terms of national belonging through the liberal multiculturalism of Los Angeles in the 1990s. But it is a maternal figure whose silence emerges as the novel’s most potent force, deployed as an act that thwarts not just the conclusion to a coming-of-age tale, but also and especially the will to speech and visibility that often structures ethnic identity politics.

The Will to Live in Palestine

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-113
Author(s):  
Lara Sheehi ◽  
Stephen Sheehi
Keyword(s):  
Will To Live ◽  
The Will

The Moral Aesthetics of Compulsory Ultrasound Viewing and the Theological Future of Abortion

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Hovey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
Us States ◽  
Moral Response ◽  
Abortion Debate ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Aesthetic

By law, women seeking abortions in some US states must undergo compulsory ultrasound viewing. This article examines the moral significance of this practice, especially as understood by pro-life religious groups, in light of Foucault’s recently published lectures on ‘The Will to Know’ and the place of the aesthetic. How does the larger abortion-debate strategy of ‘showing’ and ‘seeing’ images—whether of living or dead fetuses—work as an aesthetic form of argument that intends to evoke a moral response in the absence of reason-giving? The article draws on recent, parallel debates regarding disgust before concluding with a theological response to the priority of will over knowledge and vision over action as commentary on the future of abortion debate and law, especially in the United States.

Prolonged chemotherapy in advanced urinary cancer: Ethical considerations

1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-298
Author(s):  
A. Spasari ◽  
A. Scalfari ◽  
F. Falvo ◽  
D. Pirritano ◽  
G.A. Ventrice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
The Will

The authors report their experience with 10 patients subjected to chemotherapy for urinary cancer. The decision to prolong therapy sprang from the persistent efficacy of the same and the will to live of the actual patients, while respecting the classical moral principles of bioethics.

Maintaining the Will to Live of Patients With Advanced Cancer

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 524-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luluel Khan ◽  
Rebecca Wong ◽  
Madeline Li ◽  
Camilla Zimmermann ◽  
Chris Lo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
The Will

Alienation and the Will to Live

1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Will To Live ◽  
The Will
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