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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... the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Political Shakespeare ( editor , with Alan Sinfield ) Sexual Dissidence : Augustine to Wilde , Freud to Foucault JONATHAN DOLLIMORE Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture.
... the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Political Shakespeare ( editor , with Alan Sinfield ) Sexual Dissidence : Augustine to Wilde , Freud to Foucault JONATHAN DOLLIMORE Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture.
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... [ Foucault ] could still be found in the baths and bars . He laughed at talk of ' safe - sex ' and reportedly said ... Foucault's attraction to death ix Introduction.
... [ Foucault ] could still be found in the baths and bars . He laughed at talk of ' safe - sex ' and reportedly said ... Foucault's attraction to death ix Introduction.
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... Foucault's immensely influential History of Sexuality , the philosopher speaks of ' the individual driven , in spite of himself , by the sombre madness of sex ' ( History , I.39 ) . For his part , the reviewer remarks solemnly that Foucault ...
... Foucault's immensely influential History of Sexuality , the philosopher speaks of ' the individual driven , in spite of himself , by the sombre madness of sex ' ( History , I.39 ) . For his part , the reviewer remarks solemnly that Foucault ...
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... Foucault . Yet Oscar Moore remained unrepentant ; in one of the last pieces he wrote before he died of AIDS - related illnesses at the age of thirty - six in September 1996 , he reiterated the view which seems to have inspired his novel ...
... Foucault . Yet Oscar Moore remained unrepentant ; in one of the last pieces he wrote before he died of AIDS - related illnesses at the age of thirty - six in September 1996 , he reiterated the view which seems to have inspired his novel ...
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