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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... and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Political Shakespeare ( editor , with Alan Sinfield ) Sexual Dissidence : Augustine to Wilde , Freud to Foucault JONATHAN DOLLIMORE Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture.
... and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Political Shakespeare ( editor , with Alan Sinfield ) Sexual Dissidence : Augustine to Wilde , Freud to Foucault JONATHAN DOLLIMORE Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture.
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... establish an affirmative gay identity politics . And not surprisingly : on the one hand , this connection of homosexual desire and death has been made by those who want homosexuals - = literally to die ; on the other , it is xi ...
... establish an affirmative gay identity politics . And not surprisingly : on the one hand , this connection of homosexual desire and death has been made by those who want homosexuals - = literally to die ; on the other , it is xi ...
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... renunciation 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.
... renunciation 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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... political 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 ...
... political 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 ...
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