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Michel Foucault on dandyism
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| Michel Foucault on dandyism |
| 11.28.04 (8:06 pm) [edit] |
The deliberate attitude of modernity is tied to an indispensable asceticism. To be modern is not to accept oneself as one is in the flux of the passing moments; it is to take oneself as object of a complex and difficult elaboration: what Baudelaire, in the vocabulary of his day, calls dandysme. Here I shall not recall in detail the well-known passages on “vulgar, earthy, vile nature”; on man’s indispensable revolt against himself; on the “doctrine of elegance” which imposes “upon its ambitious and humble disciples” a discipline more despotic than the most terrible religions; the pages, finally, on the asceticism of the dandy who makes of his body, his behavior, his feelings and passions, his very existence, a work of art.
- from his essay "What is Enlightenment?" (1978)
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posted by: Lisa (reply)
post date: 11.29.04 (1:01 pm)
you should so email Rachel about all this.
posted by: kurmidt (reply)
post date: 12.13.04 (7:45 pm)
that's dandy
posted by: Michelle (reply)
post date: 03.27.06 (3:47 am)
I would say you Gotcha a great viewpoint.
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