In Praise of a Strategic Beauty. Mario Perniola’s Aesthetics between Stoicism, the Baroque and the Avant-Gardes

Abstract

Several scholars (Bartoloni2019, Bukdahl2017, Vogt2019) focused on Mario Perniola’sperspective on art, post-human sexuality and political theory. Yet little has been written on the philosophical and literary sources—specifically Stoicism, the Baroque and the Avant-Gardes—which influenced his standpoint. The objective of this paper is todevelop Perniola’s conception of a strategically oriented beauty, which implies a connection be-tween the aesthetic element and the political-effectual one.

Keywords

• mario perniola
• stoicism
• baroque
• avant-gardes
• strategic beauty