Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

by JonathanDollimore (Author)

Synopsis

From the eloquence of the philosophers of the ancient world, the early Christian theologians and the Jacobeans' obsession with death, through to the legacy of the 19th-century philosophers and the major thinkers of the 20th century, this text traces mankind's preoccupation with desire's fatal, paradoxical involvement with death.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 30 Apr 1998

ISBN 10: 0713991259
ISBN 13: 9780713991253