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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... paradoxical , dimension of desire itself . Mutability is the stuff of life ; without it , life literally would not be possible . If , with regard to the natural world , this truth is accepted with a wise - sad equanimity , in relation ...
... paradoxical , dimension of desire itself . Mutability is the stuff of life ; without it , life literally would not be possible . If , with regard to the natural world , this truth is accepted with a wise - sad equanimity , in relation ...
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... paradoxes animating the energies which have ' made ' Western culture : even as we are driven forward by a secular fear of failure , we resort to the metaphysical reassurance that such failure is ultimately inevitable . And if that ...
... paradoxes animating the energies which have ' made ' Western culture : even as we are driven forward by a secular fear of failure , we resort to the metaphysical reassurance that such failure is ultimately inevitable . And if that ...
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... paradoxes of modern philosophies of human identity : death is taken into consciousness in a way which is at once an expansion and a nullification of consciousness ( below , Parts IV - V ) . Perhaps it has always been the case that the ...
... paradoxes of modern philosophies of human identity : death is taken into consciousness in a way which is at once an expansion and a nullification of consciousness ( below , Parts IV - V ) . Perhaps it has always been the case that the ...
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