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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... Sexuality , the philosopher speaks of ' the individual driven , in spite of himself , by the sombre madness of sex ' ( History , I.39 ) . For his part , the reviewer remarks solemnly that Foucault ' remained a glutton for sexual danger ...
... Sexuality , the philosopher speaks of ' the individual driven , in spite of himself , by the sombre madness of sex ' ( History , I.39 ) . For his part , the reviewer remarks solemnly that Foucault ' remained a glutton for sexual danger ...
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... sexuality : perversely , lethally , ecstatically . And this has led some to regard the vision of this novel as almost as ... sexual knowledge have always been inextricably bound in an embrace with death ' ( ' Rites ' , p . 16 ) . 6 Moore ...
... sexuality : perversely , lethally , ecstatically . And this has led some to regard the vision of this novel as almost as ... sexual knowledge have always been inextricably bound in an embrace with death ' ( ' Rites ' , p . 16 ) . 6 Moore ...
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... sexually dissident have sometimes known more about this connection , confronting and exploring what the sexually ... sexual that I am confused confused to be attracted by , in effect , my own annihilation . ( ' In Time of Plague ...
... sexually dissident have sometimes known more about this connection , confronting and exploring what the sexually ... sexual that I am confused confused to be attracted by , in effect , my own annihilation . ( ' In Time of Plague ...
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... Sexual / gender differences It has been said that the ' man ' who has recently died was indeed exclusively male , and the ideologies he served quintessentially mascul- inist . It will be clear in what follows that the Western ...
... Sexual / gender differences It has been said that the ' man ' who has recently died was indeed exclusively male , and the ideologies he served quintessentially mascul- inist . It will be clear in what follows that the Western ...
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