Our goal is not ' life-affirming activity ' but ' quasiaesthetic and passive contemplation '.#!
Such music works to integrate the listener into society; it practises the cruel deception of an aesthetic pleasure which is purportedly life-affirming.
If two or more old women live together, they may be able to provide each other with mutual support, assistance, and life-affirming friendship.
As this chapter demonstrates, a diagnosis is often the beginning, middle, or end of a narrative of lived experience that runs the gamut from extremely stigmatizing to extraordinarily life-affirming.
The conversation of mentor and student is necessarily broad, but it informs the notion of finding one's place in the cosmos of profession in a life-affirming and powerful way.
Antinatalists deny that mitigation can successfully get a positive from a negative, so existence remains futile even though one may adopt an existentialist, life-affirming outlook.
They were also life-affirming and need to be interpreted in clear contrast to the symbolism of death.
Despite its dark undercurrents and bleak setting, the film manages to be very funny and even life-affirming overall.
