Death, desire and loss in Western culture

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Death, desire and loss in Western culture

Jonathan Dollimore

Penguin books, 1999

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First published: London: Allen Lane, 1998

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Jonathan Dollimore explores the recurring theme of the relationship between death and desire throughout western literature, philosophy and art from the Greeks to the postmodernists.

目次

  • Part 1 The ancient world: Eros and Thanatos, change and loss in the ancient world
  • "All worlds fail through weariness" - Ecclesiastes
  • escaping desire - Christianty, Gnosticism and Buddhism. Part 2 Mutability, melancholy and quest - the renaissance: fatal confusions - sex and death in early modern cultures
  • "Death's incessant motion"
  • death and identity
  • "Desire is death" - Shakespeare. Part 3 Social death: the denial of death?
  • degeneration and dissidence
  • between degeneration and the death drive - Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". Part 4 Modernity and philosophy - the authenticity of nothingness: the philosophical embrace of death - Hegel
  • Heidegger, Kojeve and Sartre part 5 The desire not to be - late metaphysics and psychoanalysdis: dying as the real aim of life - Schopenhauer
  • Freud - life as a detour to death. Part 6 Renouncing death: the philosophy of Praxis and emancipation - Feuerbach, Marx, Marcuse. Part 7 The aesthetics of energy: fighting decadence - Nietzsche against Schopenhauer and Wagner
  • ecstasy and annihilation - Georges Bataille
  • in search of potency - D.H. Lawrence. Part 8 Death and the homoerotic: wrecked by desire - Thomas Mann
  • promiscuity and death
  • the wonder of pleasure.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA44308368
  • ISBN
    • 0140242929
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxxii, 383p
  • 大きさ
    20cm
  • 件名
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