Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Jonathan Dollimore (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-93772-6 (ISBN)

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The frustrated relationship between death and desire has fixated the Western imagination. Jonathan Dollimore here provides nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley and Holderlin with Foucault. He weaves a thread through each to tell the story of the making of the modern individual.

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.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.8.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-93772-8 / 0415937728
ISBN-13	978-0-415-93772-6 / 9780415937726
Zustand	Neuware