Death, Desire and Loss in Western CultureThe relationship between sex and death has long intrigued Western thinkers. Dollimore traces this preoccupation from the works of the philosophers of the ancient world, through the early Christian theologians, to the 19th and 20th centuries and our supposedly sophisticated perspective. |
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Eros and Thanatos Change and Loss in the Ancient World | 3 |
Ecclesiastes | 36 |
Christianity Gnosticism and Buddhism | 43 |
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