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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... find it easy to make the perverse imaginative leap whereby the real material energies of the universe seemingly reside not in the generative life - force but in the disintegrative potency of death . Even more perversely , the ...
... find it easy to make the perverse imaginative leap whereby the real material energies of the universe seemingly reside not in the generative life - force but in the disintegrative potency of death . Even more perversely , the ...
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... much later , Donne or any one of a number of his contemporaries describes man as a fragile being all the time being disintegrated by aberrant desire ( I find myself scattered , melted ' , Selected Prose , xix INTRODUCTION.
... much later , Donne or any one of a number of his contemporaries describes man as a fragile being all the time being disintegrated by aberrant desire ( I find myself scattered , melted ' , Selected Prose , xix INTRODUCTION.
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Jonathan Dollimore. find myself scattered , melted ' , Selected Prose , p . 114 ) he is making mutability even more central to both individual identity and desire . Such earlier accounts of desire as the radical undoing of the virtuous ...
Jonathan Dollimore. find myself scattered , melted ' , Selected Prose , p . 114 ) he is making mutability even more central to both individual identity and desire . Such earlier accounts of desire as the radical undoing of the virtuous ...
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