Death, Desire, and Loss in Western CulturePsychology Press, 1998 - 384 pages 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. |
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Contents
THE ANCIENT WORLD | 3 |
Ecclesiastes | 36 |
Christianity Gnosticism and Buddhism | 43 |
MUTABILITY MELANCHOLY | 57 |
Deaths Incessant Motion | 71 |
Death and Identity | 84 |
Shakespeare | 102 |
SOCIAL DEATH | 111 |
Life as a Detour to Death | 180 |
Feuerbach | 201 |
Nietzsche against Schopenhauer | 231 |
Georges Bataille | 249 |
D H Lawrence | 258 |
Thomas Mann | 275 |
Promiscuity and Death | 294 |
The Wonder of the Pleasure | 312 |
The Denial of Death? | 119 |
Degeneration and Dissidence | 128 |
Joseph Conrads | 145 |
Heidegger Kojève and Sartre | 161 |
LATE METAPHYSICS | 171 |
Notes | 329 |
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| Title | Death, Desire, and Loss in Western Culture Literary Studies |
| Authors | Jonathan Dollimore, Reader in the School of English and American Studies Jonathan Dollimore |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0415921740, 9780415921749 |
| Length | 384 pages |
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