Death, desire and loss in western culture
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 text...
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| Glavni autor: | Dollimore, Jonathan (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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New York :
Routledge,
2001.
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- I. The Ancient World. 1. 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 III. Social Death. 8. The Denial of Death? 9. Degeneration and Dissidence. 10. Between Degeneration and the Death Drive: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness IV. Modernity and Philosophy: The Authenticity of Nothingness. 11. The Philosophical Embrace of Death: Hegel. 12. Heidegger, Kojeve 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 Detour to Death VI. Renouncing Death. 15. The Philosophy of Praxis and Emancipation: Feuerbach, Marx, Marcuse VII. The Aesthetics of Energy. 16. Fighting Decadence: Nietzsche against Schopenhauer and Wagner. 17. Ecstasy and Annihilation: Georges Bataille. 18. In Search of Potency: D. H. Lawrence VIII. Death and the Homoerotic. 19. Wrecked by Desire: Thomas Mann. 20. Promiscuity and Death. 21. The Wonder of the Pleasure.