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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Page xvii
... 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 ( sticking to the straight and narrow ) , while related virtues like ...
... 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 ( sticking to the straight and narrow ) , while related virtues like ...
Page xviii
... perverse imaginative leap whereby the real material energies of the universe seemingly reside not in the generative life - force but in the disintegrative potency of death . Even more perversely , the disintegrat- ive power of death is ...
... perverse imaginative leap whereby the real material energies of the universe seemingly reside not in the generative life - force but in the disintegrative potency of death . Even more perversely , the disintegrat- ive power of death is ...
Page xxi
... perverse hubris so character- istic of this individualism , there will be those who seek death not only as the release from desire , but also as its object ; from the earliest times , but later increasingly , death becomes eroticized ...
... perverse hubris so character- istic of this individualism , there will be those who seek death not only as the release from desire , but also as its object ; from the earliest times , but later increasingly , death becomes eroticized ...
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