Envisioning the good life: The limits of contemporary vitalism

Noys, B. (2025) Envisioning the good life: The limits of contemporary vitalism. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781399539319

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Abstract

Envisioning the Good Life is a call to re-imagine our lives beyond the limits of recent understandings. While contemporary thinkers of life have promoted a vision of life as excess to escape the crises that beset the present, these vitalist visions leave life detached from reality and fragmented. Contemporary vitalism imagines life as excessive, savage life, as damaged life that flees power, and as redeemed life that forms a new dispersed community. While exploring these visions of life, this book argues for an integrated understanding of the good life. Reading against the limits of the current imaginary, Envisioning the Good Life suggests that our lives are not defined by the limits of illness, death, and finitude. This book urges us to rediscover the vision of the good life in the collective and to grasp our own powers to transform our lives and the world.

Publication Type: Books
Uncontrolled Keywords: ontology, community, contemporary theory, life, myth, religion, vitalism, philosophy,
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics
J Political Science > JC Political theory
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisions: Academic Areas > Institute of Arts and Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Research Entities > Chichester Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Depositing User: Benjamin Noys
Date Deposited: 19 Feb 2025 11:05
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2025 11:05
URI: https://eprints.chi.ac.uk/id/eprint/7960

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