Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Jonathan Dollimore

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135773274
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Literatura
• Sous-sujet: Crítica literaria

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.

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

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