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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Jonathan Dollimore. Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture BY THE SAME AUTHOR Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideology.
Jonathan Dollimore. Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture BY THE SAME AUTHOR Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideology.
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Jonathan Dollimore. BY THE SAME AUTHOR Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Political Shakespeare ( editor , with Alan Sinfield ) Sexual Dissidence : Augustine to Wilde ...
Jonathan Dollimore. BY THE SAME AUTHOR Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Political Shakespeare ( editor , with Alan Sinfield ) Sexual Dissidence : Augustine to Wilde ...
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... radical theological formulations , Augustine contended that a death - infected mutability pervades desire , and is transmitted from one generation to the next via semen and the ' unclean motion ' of the sexual act ( below , Chapter 3 ) ...
... radical theological formulations , Augustine contended that a death - infected mutability pervades desire , and is transmitted from one generation to the next via semen and the ' unclean motion ' of the sexual act ( below , Chapter 3 ) ...
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... radical undoing of the virtuous self may seem of little interest today , especially if we assume them to be no less obsolete than they are objectionable . On the other hand , we might listen closely when our psychoanalyst tells us that ...
... radical undoing of the virtuous self may seem of little interest today , especially if we assume them to be no less obsolete than they are objectionable . On the other hand , we might listen closely when our psychoanalyst tells us that ...
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... radical elements in humanism have included a strain of anti - humanism whereby con- sciousness identifies with what threatens it , and especially with what it submits to , thereby empowering and destabilizing itself both at once . It is ...
... radical elements in humanism have included a strain of anti - humanism whereby con- sciousness identifies with what threatens it , and especially with what it submits to , thereby empowering and destabilizing itself both at once . It is ...
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