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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... Modern Culture 5 ' Death's Incessant Motion ' 59 71 6 Death and Identity 84 7 ' Desire is Death ' : Shakespeare 102 III SOCIAL DEATH 8 The Denial of Death ? 119 9 Degeneration and Dissidence 128 10 Between Degeneration and the Death ...
... Modern Culture 5 ' Death's Incessant Motion ' 59 71 6 Death and Identity 84 7 ' Desire is Death ' : Shakespeare 102 III SOCIAL DEATH 8 The Denial of Death ? 119 9 Degeneration and Dissidence 128 10 Between Degeneration and the Death ...
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... modern culture : knowing and streetwise , yet innocently narcissistic too - the ' sassy street urchin who knew what he wanted and wanted it now ' ; the ' flouting , flaunting rudeboy ' who doesn't come into tissues , preferring instead ...
... modern culture : knowing and streetwise , yet innocently narcissistic too - the ' sassy street urchin who knew what he wanted and wanted it now ' ; the ' flouting , flaunting rudeboy ' who doesn't come into tissues , preferring instead ...
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... 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 paradoxes of modern ...
... 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 paradoxes of modern ...
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... modern theory , often ignorant of intellectual history , remain unaware of the extent to which earlier ways of thinking which it claims to have entirely superseded remain obscurely active within it . ― Sexual / gender differences It has ...
... modern theory , often ignorant of intellectual history , remain unaware of the extent to which earlier ways of thinking which it claims to have entirely superseded remain obscurely active within it . ― Sexual / gender differences It has ...
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