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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... 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 ' 59 71 6 Death and Identity 84 7 ' Desire is Death ...
... 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 ' 59 71 6 Death and Identity 84 7 ' Desire is Death ...
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... Christian belief that man , through transgressive desire , brought death into the world , with the consequence that henceforth it would haunt desire as the source of all suffering ( e.g. Romans 5:12 , 6:23 ) , to the psychoanalytic ...
... Christian belief that man , through transgressive desire , brought death into the world , with the consequence that henceforth it would haunt desire as the source of all suffering ( e.g. Romans 5:12 , 6:23 ) , to the psychoanalytic ...
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... and the incentive , for such an identification . As we shall see , from Christian theology to post - modernism , a desiring identification with death is one of the most remarkable aspects of our culture . xxii INTRODUCTION.
... and the incentive , for such an identification . As we shall see , from Christian theology to post - modernism , a desiring identification with death is one of the most remarkable aspects of our culture . xxii INTRODUCTION.
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... Christianity , it is that religion which remains the most significant precedent for their misogyny - especially the narrative of the Fall , which resonates power- fully in our culture to this day . It was or is a narrative in which ...
... Christianity , it is that religion which remains the most significant precedent for their misogyny - especially the narrative of the Fall , which resonates power- fully in our culture to this day . It was or is a narrative in which ...
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