Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Jonathan Dollimore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92174-9 (ISBN)

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This strikingly original work is a testament to our preoccupation with death and desire. An immensely important book, this challenges the way we understand desire, sexuality, and the notion of identity.

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	17.9.1998
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	930 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-92174-0 / 0415921740
ISBN-13	978-0-415-92174-9 / 9780415921749
Zustand	Neuware