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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... idea of not being at all ; as Sir Walter Ralegh put it some 400 years ago , under the sway of time ' all is dissolved , our labours come to nought ' ; mutability destroys not only living things , but all human endeavour : all droops ...
... idea of not being at all ; as Sir Walter Ralegh put it some 400 years ago , under the sway of time ' all is dissolved , our labours come to nought ' ; mutability destroys not only living things , but all human endeavour : all droops ...
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... idea of devi- ation – itself the conceptual heart of the idea of perversion – is about a movement which is dangerous or subversive : to deviate = to go astray . Conversely , the good , the safe and the true are about not deviating ...
... idea of devi- ation – itself the conceptual heart of the idea of perversion – is about a movement which is dangerous or subversive : to deviate = to go astray . Conversely , the good , the safe and the true are about not deviating ...
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... idea of this death of the self has always been a part of Western individualism . And , with that energetic , perverse hubris so character- istic of this individualism , there will be those who seek death not only as the release from ...
... idea of this death of the self has always been a part of Western individualism . And , with that energetic , perverse hubris so character- istic of this individualism , there will be those who seek death not only as the release from ...
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... idea that our subjectivity , far from being autonomous , is ' subjected ' to the historical and social structures which determine it . ) Far from being radically innovative , as their adherents claim , such recent ideas are mutations of ...
... idea that our subjectivity , far from being autonomous , is ' subjected ' to the historical and social structures which determine it . ) Far from being radically innovative , as their adherents claim , such recent ideas are mutations of ...
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Jonathan Dollimore. also associates women with death and which revives the idea that nature is most fundamentally a force of degeneration . For Paglia human history is a struggle between the Apollonian and the Dionysian . By the latter ...
Jonathan Dollimore. also associates women with death and which revives the idea that nature is most fundamentally a force of degeneration . For Paglia human history is a struggle between the Apollonian and the Dionysian . By the latter ...
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