Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture 0415921740

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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
0415921740

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Jonathan Dollimore

Table of contents :
Cover
Death, Desire and Lossin Western Culture
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I THE ANCIENT WORLD
Eros and Thanatos, Change and Loss in the Ancient World
2 'All Words Fail through Weariness': Ecclesiastes
3 Escaping Desire: Christianity, Gnosticism and Buddhism
II MUTABILITY, MELANCHOLY AND QUEST: THE RENAISSANCE
4 Fatal Confusions: Sex and Death in Early Modern Culture
5 'Death's Incessant Motion
6 Death and Identity
7 'Desire is Death': Shakespeare
Ill SOCIAL DEATH
8 The Denial of Death?
9 Degeneration and Dissidence
10 Between Degeneration and the Death Drive: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
IV MODERNITY AND PHILOSOPHY: THE AUTHENTICITY OF NOTHINGNESS
11 The Philosophical Embrace of Death: Hegel
12 Heidegger, Kojève and Sartre
V THE DESIRE NOT TO BE: LATE METAPHYSICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
13 Dying as the Real Aim of Life: Schopenhauer
14 Freud: Life as a Detourto Death
VI RENOUNCING DEATH
15 The Philosophy of Praxis and Emancipation: Feuerbach, Marx, Marcuse
VII THE AESTHETICS OF ENERGY
16 Fighting Décadence: Nietzsche against Schopenhauer and Wagner
17 Ecstasy and Annihilation: Georges Bataille
18 In Search of Potency: D. H. Lawrence
VIII DEATH AND THE HOMOEROTIC
19 Wrecked by Desire: Thomas Mann
20 Promiscuity and Death
21 The Wonder of the Pleasure
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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