pDescribed as a major achievement for any writer and having the potential to become one of the seminal works of our time, Ilario Colli's bold first work, emIn Art as in Life emventures into territory few modern culture theorists dare to cover. Learned yet imminently accessible, emIn Art as in Life emdelights with its sumptuous language and its profound ideas.ppIts effortless navigation through 1,700 years of literature, music and the visual arts leads the reader to a startling conclusion the contemporary Postmodern aesthetic, like the moral relativism that spawned it, is emnot em- as it's often claimed to be - a sign of a robust, self-confident creative culture, but rather the primary artistic symptom of a metaphysically ailing civilisation one still recovering from the demise of moral absolutism and still struggling to find meaning in its wake. ppWhat people have said about emIn Art as in Life emppemIn Art as in Life would represent a major achievement for any writer. It contains nume