This book tackles the topic of how Shakespeare viewed his own craft and creativity.

"Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards.

In this biography Ekbert Faas pioneers a new kind of "life-writing.

The Genealogy of Aesthetics redresses this imbalance via a radical re-reading of seminal thinkers like Plato, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger and Derrida.

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

Admirers of Creeley and Layton will find this book of special interest, as will students of literature and scholars of modern poetry.

For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic "guru" figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.