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1 online resource (417 pages) |
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Cover; Death, Desire and Lossin Western Culture; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I THE ANCIENT WORLD; Eros and Thanatos, Change and Loss in the Ancient World; 2 'All Words Fail through Weariness': Ecclesiastes; 3 Escaping Desire: Christianity, Gnosticism and Buddhism; II MUTABILITY, MELANCHOLY AND QUEST: THE RENAISSANCE; 4 Fatal Confusions: Sex and Death in Early Modern Culture; 5 'Death's Incessant Motion; 6 Death and Identity; 7 'Desire is Death': Shakespeare; Ill SOCIAL DEATH; 8 The Denial of Death?; 9 Degeneration and Dissidence |
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10 Between Degeneration and the Death Drive: Joseph Conrad's Heart of DarknessIV MODERNITY AND PHILOSOPHY: THE AUTHENTICITY OF NOTHINGNESS; 11 The Philosophical Embrace of Death: Hegel; 12 Heidegger, Kojève and Sartre; V THE DESIRE NOT TO BE: LATE METAPHYSICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS; 13 Dying as the Real Aim of Life: Schopenhauer; 14 Freud: Life as a Detourto Death; VI RENOUNCING DEATH; 15 The Philosophy of Praxis and Emancipation: Feuerbach, Marx, Marcuse; VII THE AESTHETICS OF ENERGY; 16 Fighting Décadence: Nietzsche against Schopenhauer and Wagner; 17 Ecstasy and Annihilation: Georges Bataille |
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18 In Search of Potency: D.H. LawrenceVIII DEATH AND THE HOMOEROTIC; 19 Wrecked by Desire: Thomas Mann; 20 Promiscuity and Death; 21 The Wonder of the Pleasure; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual |
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Death.
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Lust.
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Loss (Psychology)
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Civilization, Western.
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Death
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deaths.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Civilization, Western
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Death
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Loss (Psychology)
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Lust
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135773205 |
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1135773203 |
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