The Aesthetic Experience of Dying

Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of Adamson's partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery. It looks at the notion of life as binary synthesis as a way of coming to understand death.

Veronica M. F. Adamson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.

1. The Return Enhanced 2. Invitation to the Dance 3. Days for Dancing 4. The Last Waltz 5. The Aesthetic Experience of Dying