Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-92174-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 853 g

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, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dollimore, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.