Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

by Jonathan Dollimore

Book Overview

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, H ouml;lderlin 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415937728
• ISBN13: 9780415937726
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"