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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... from the punitive moral right in which AIDS is a punishment for promiscuity , the wages of sin . Hugo lives and dies according to the creed of a guiltless and even blameless fatalism ; even at his most compulsive and X INTRODUCTION.
... from the punitive moral right in which AIDS is a punishment for promiscuity , the wages of sin . Hugo lives and dies according to the creed of a guiltless and even blameless fatalism ; even at his most compulsive and X INTRODUCTION.
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... and with- drawal , it rather more often redoubles the secular effort by imparting to it a fatalistic ' lift ' . After all , Enoch Powell's famous observation that ' All political lives . . . end in xviii INTRODUCTION.
... and with- drawal , it rather more often redoubles the secular effort by imparting to it a fatalistic ' lift ' . After all , Enoch Powell's famous observation that ' All political lives . . . end in xviii INTRODUCTION.
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Jonathan Dollimore. that ' All political lives . . . end in failure because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ' ( p . 151 ) may well have become a truism , but it does not deter politicians , whose actions often imply ...
Jonathan Dollimore. that ' All political lives . . . end in failure because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ' ( p . 151 ) may well have become a truism , but it does not deter politicians , whose actions often imply ...
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