Death, Desire and Loss in Western CultureDeath, 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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| Title | Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture Sport in the Global Society |
| Author | Jonathan Dollimore |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1135773203, 9781135773205 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General |
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