Jonathan Dollimore

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Death, 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, Holderlin 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415937726
• ISBN-10: 0415937728
• Artikelnr.: 21701611

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Dollimore is Professor in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of the critically acclaimed Sexual Dissidence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. I Ancient World. II Mutability, Melancholy and Quest: The
Renaissance. III Social Death. IV Modernity and Philosophy: The
Authenticity of Nothingness. V The Desire Not To Be: Late Metaphysics and
Psychoanalysis. VI Renouncing Death. VII The Aesthetics of Energy. VIII
Death and The Homoerotic. Notes. Bibliography. Index.