Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781135773274
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature
Index
Achebe, Chinua 384 n.1
Achilles 17
aesthetics
of energy xxx–xxxii 231–72
as evasion of the chthonian xxiv
Africa, in Lawrence 266, 354 n.4
AIDS ix–xiii, 43, 122, 196, 294–5, 301, 304, 310–11, 329 n.5, 330 n.6, 357 n.3
Alcibiades 8, 286
Alcman 16
Anaxagoras 332 n.15
Anaximander 3
annihilation of selfhood
in Bataille 244ff.
in Bersani 303–5
in Foucault 306–7
in Lawrence 266ff., 354 n.4
in Mann 290–91
in Nietzsche 237
in sex xxv, 65
anti-essentialism, the experience of 325
anti-humanism xxii 170, 207–8, 306–8, 311, 322
anti-Semitism 216
Apollonian, the xxiv
in Mann 282–3
in Nietzsche 238–41
appearance and reality xiii
Aquinas, Thomas 44
Ariès, Philippe 63, 66, 120–21, 160
Aristophanes 12–13, 22, 52, 112
Aristotle 14, 100, 225, 346 n.14
asceticism 43–7
atavism 132, 145
atheism 206
Auden, W. H. 313–14
Augustine, St xix–xx, 47–50, 92–3, 97, 99, 139, 335 n.4, 347 n.20, 353 n.4
Auschwitz 221, 259
author, death of 306
authoritarianism 259
Bacon, Francis 60
Bald, R. C. 89
Baldwin, James 294–6, 302, 356 n.1
Barthes, Roland 312ff.
Bataille, Georges xxii, xxiv, xxxi, 94, 249–57, 299, 305
bathhouses, gay ix, 294, 298, 310
Batz, P. 73
Baudelaire, Charles 135
Baudrillard, Jean 123–6
Bauman, Zygmunt 121–2, 125–6, 339 n.1
beauty, and death 288
Beauvoi...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Frontmatter page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. The Ancient World
  10. Eros and Thanatos, Change and Loss in the Ancient World
  11. ‘All Words Fail through Weariness' Ecclesiastes
  12. Escaping Desire Christianity, Gnosticism and Buddhism
  13. Mutability, Melancholy and Quest The Renaissance
  14. Fatal Confusions Sex and Death in Early Modern Culture
  15. ‘Death's Incessant Motion'
  16. Death and Identity
  17. ‘Desire is Death' Shakespeare
  18. Social Death
  19. The Denial of Death?
  20. Degeneration and Dissidence
  21. Between Degeneration and the Death Drive Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  22. Modernity and Philosophy The Authenticity of Nothingness
  23. The Philosophical Embrace of Death Hegel
  24. Heidegger, Kojève and Sartre
  25. The Desire Not to Be Late Metaphysics and Psychoanalysis
  26. Dying as the Real Aim of Life Schopenhauer
  27. Freud Life as a Detour to Death
  28. Renouncing Death
  29. The Philosophy of Praxis and Emancipation Feuerbach, Marx, Marcuse
  30. The Aesthetics of Energy
  31. Fighting Décadence Nietzsche against Schopenhauer and Wagner
  32. Ecstasy and Annihilation Georges Bataille
  33. In Search of Potency D. H. Lawrence
  34. Death and the Homoertic
  35. Wrecked by Desire Thomas Mann
  36. Promiscuity and Death
  37. The Wonder of the Pleasure
  38. Notes
  39. Bibliography
  40. Index

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