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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... 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 ' remained a ...
... 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 ' remained a ...
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... influence on the development of our culture . Western metaphysics and Western religion derive from that experience , especially as it led to repeated attempts to distinguish between appearance and reality . Broadly speaking , the world ...
... influence on the development of our culture . Western metaphysics and Western religion derive from that experience , especially as it led to repeated attempts to distinguish between appearance and reality . Broadly speaking , the world ...
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... influence of Augustine focuses a paradox which came to fascinate Freud : even as it preaches the inherent instability , futility and misery of mortal existence , this theology of death keeps its adherents reluctantly future- directed ...
... influence of Augustine focuses a paradox which came to fascinate Freud : even as it preaches the inherent instability , futility and misery of mortal existence , this theology of death keeps its adherents reluctantly future- directed ...
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... Influential developments in modern thought internalize death as never before . This is true of writers as diverse as Hegel , Schopenhauer , Heidegger , Freud , Bataille and Kojève , all of whom contribute to one of the most fascinating ...
... Influential developments in modern thought internalize death as never before . This is true of writers as diverse as Hegel , Schopenhauer , Heidegger , Freud , Bataille and Kojève , all of whom contribute to one of the most fascinating ...
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