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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... of Darkness 145 IV MODERNITY AND PHILOSOPHY : THE AUTHENTICITY OF NOTHINGNESS II The Philosophical Embrace of Death : Hegel 153 12 Heidegger , Kojève and Sartre 161 CONTENTS V THE DESIRE NOT TO BE : LATE METAPHYSICS Contents.
... of Darkness 145 IV MODERNITY AND PHILOSOPHY : THE AUTHENTICITY OF NOTHINGNESS II The Philosophical Embrace of Death : Hegel 153 12 Heidegger , Kojève and Sartre 161 CONTENTS V THE DESIRE NOT TO BE : LATE METAPHYSICS Contents.
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... Heidegger , Freud , Bataille and Kojève , all of whom contribute to one of the most fascinating paradoxes of modern philosophies of human identity : death is taken into consciousness in a way which is at once an expansion and a ...
... Heidegger , Freud , Bataille and Kojève , all of whom contribute to one of the most fascinating paradoxes of modern philosophies of human identity : death is taken into consciousness in a way which is at once an expansion and a ...
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