ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |56 pages
The Ancient World
part |60 pages
Mutability, Melancholy and Quest
part |34 pages
Social Death
part |20 pages
Modernity and Philosophy
chapter |10 pages
Heidegger, Kojève and Sartre
part |157 pages
The Desire Not to Be
part |29 pages
Renouncing Death
part |44 pages
The Aesthetics of Energy
part |55 pages
Death and the Homoertic