Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
Author:   Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415937726


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 August 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9780415937726


ISBN 10:   0415937728
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 August 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction. I Ancient World. II Mutability, Melancholy and Quest: The Renaissance. III Social Death. IV Modernity and Philosophy: The Authenticity of Nothingness. V The Desire Not To Be: Late Metaphysics and Psychoanalysis. VI Renouncing Death. VII The Aesthetics of Energy. VIII Death and The Homoerotic. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Prodigiously intelligent, deeply challenging and ultimately rewarding.... - Publishers Weekly This is a work of breath-taking scope and reach. ...impressive command of sources and penetrating vision.... - Theological Studies ... this immensely wide-ranging account repays careful study. - Library Journal ... an impressively versatile survey... Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a boldly transhistorical book from one who would lay claim to the title of cultural materialist. - London Review of Books, 16 April 1998 In [Dollimore's] engaging study of death and its corresponding link to desire. . . . he offers a substantial contribution to Western intellectual history. . . . Dollimore presents a marvelous, enrapturing, and accessible work for both the scholar and the armchair philosopher. - Booklist, starred review


Prodigiously intelligent, deeply challenging and ultimately rewarding.... <br>- Publishers Weekly <br> This is a work of breath-taking scope and reach. ...impressive command of sources and penetrating vision.... <br>- Theological Studies <br>... this immensely wide-ranging account repays careful study. <br>- Library Journal <br>... an impressively versatile survey... Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a boldly transhistorical book from one who would lay claim to the title of cultural materialist. <br>- London Review of Books, 16 April 1998 <br> In [Dollimore's] engaging study of death and its corresponding link to desire. . . . he offers a substantial contribution to Western intellectual history. . . . Dollimore presents a marvelous, enrapturing, and accessible work for both the scholar and the armchair philosopher. <br>- Booklist, starred review <br>


Author Information

Jonathan Dollimore is Professor in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of the critically acclaimed Sexual Dissidence.

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